Eck v. Kutz
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania
In Equity. Suit for infringement of letters patent No. 523,111, issued July 17, 1894, and No. 592,134, issued October 19, 1897, both granted to James L. Eck, for improvements in knitting machines. On final hearing.
1Opinion of the Court
ARCHBALD, District Judge.*
The mechanical devices which are the subject of the present suit are designed as constituent parts of machines for knitting stockings, and have to do with fashioning0 the heels and toes. Knitting machines of this character — aside from the driving parts — consist essentially of a series of vertically movable needles, surrounded by a cylinder provided with inwardly projected cams, which form a race or course, along which, when the cylinder is revolved, the needles are forced to run by the engagement of the cams with their outwardly protruding hubs or butts. In…
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