Titeflex Metal Hose Co. v. Robertson

ROBB, Associate Justice.

Appeal from a decree in the Supreme Court of the District dismissing appellant’s bill, filed under the provisions of section 4915, R. S. (35 USCA § 63), for the granting of a patent on the combination of an inner corrugated tube re-enforced by a braided covering.

Of the five claims, claim 2 is representative, and reads as follows: “The combination with a corrugated tube depending for its flexibility on relative movement of the corrugation sides, of strands helically wound about said tube in opposite directions, bearing against said corrugations and connected to the ends…