Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. v. Rosatto

BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.

In the court below the BrunswickBalke-Collender Company, owner of patent No. 623,933, for a bowling alley, granted April 25, 1899, to William H. Wiggins, filed a bill against Frank Rosatto, charging infringement thereof. On final hearing that court, in an opinion reported at 159 Fed. 729, held the patent void. From a decree dismissing the bill the Brunswick Company appealed. The object of the patentee was to improve the construction of bowling alleys with reference to the “ball-gutters” or troughlike conduits alongside the alleyway. These gutters serve to carry to…