Densmore v. Scofield

This is an appeal from a decree dismissing the complainant’s bill, brought upon a reissued patent issued to James Densmore and Amos Densmore May 29, 1866. The summation and claims,-as set forth in .the reissue, are as follows: —

“ The nature of our invention consists in combining two large, light, tight, firm, stout tanks with an ordinary railway car, making the tank practically a part of the car, so as to carry the desired substance in bulk in the car itself, or in a permanent fixture or part thereof, instead of in barrels, casks, hogsheads, tierces, or other movable vessels or packages, as…