Wicke v. Ostrum
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This is a suit by William Wicke against Henry P. Ostrum to restrain the alleged infringement by the latter of letters-patent No. 38,924, granted June 16, 1863, to George Wicke, for an improvement in machines for nailing boxes, of which letters the .complainant is the owner.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This is a suit by William Wicke against Henry P. Ostrum to restrain the alleged infringement by the latter of letters-patent No. 38,924, granted June 16, 1863, to George Wicke, for an improvement in machines for nailing boxes, of which letters the .complainant is the owner. The defendant denied the infringement, and alleged that the machines made, used, and sold by him were manufactured substantially as specified and claimed in. letters-patent No. 172,579, granted to him Jan. 25, 1876, for an improvement…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
The patent sued on in this case is for a machine for nailing boxes, invented by George Wicke. Before this invention nails were driven singly, and by hand. By the machine more than one could be driven at the same time.
In the description of the invention which accompanied the application for the patent, the inventor said, in effect, that it consisted in the employments of grooved spring jaws for the purpose of holding the nails and guiding them to their places, combined with a corresponding' number of rising and falling plungers for driving each nail singly and at the same time. The plungers…
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