Legal Opinion
Special Equipment Co. v. Coe
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided November 6, 1944No. 8466PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARNOLD, Associate Justice.
The alleged invention in this case is a machine which automatically cuts, peels and cores pears for canning. It consists of (1) a revolving turret in which the tops of the pears are “bobbed” or cut off, (2) a mechanism which transfers them to a splitting knife which cuts them in half, and (3) a second revolving turret in which the halved pears are peeled and cored. The machine has been highly successful. It has made it possible to double the annual pear pack since 1931 and materially reduced the cost of canned pears. About eighty per cent of all pears canned are…
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Special Equipment Co. v. CoeSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
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