Jenkins v. Gurney

This suit is brought upon letters patent, numbered 159,-577, dated February 9,1875, granted to John Hyslop, Jr., assignor to the complainants, for an improvement in machines for making shoe-shanks. The invention relates to a device for packing shoe-shanks upon a table after leaving the cutting and forming dies, by wdiich means the labor is saved of packing by hand. The same patentee is the inventor of a machine for cutting, punching, and bending metal shoe-shanks, for which a patent, No. 129,347, was issued July 16,1872. The patent in suit was intended as an attachment to this machine. This…