Maytag Co. v. Brooklyn Edison Co.

MANTON, Circuit Judge.

This suit is for infringement pf patent No. 1,866,779 granted July 12, 1932, for a washing machine. The three claims in suit are Nos. 23 and 26 for an apparatus and No. 38 for a method claim. They are found in the margin.1

The patent, after referring to the wear and tear encountered in washing clothes in washing machines, in which the materials to be washed are rubbed or drawn through the water by a dolly or other mechanism, or tumbled against the sides of the tub or rubbed against projections on the interior of the tub, points out the desirability of a washing operation…