Beach v. Hobbs
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeals from tbe Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. This was a suit in equity by Fred H. Beach against Clarence W. Hobbs and others for alleged infringement of a patent. From the decree entered (82 Fed. 916) both parties have appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
COLT, Circuit Judge.
The subject-matter of this suit is reissued letters patent No. 11,167, dated May 26, 1891, granted to Fred H. Beach for an improvement in machines for attaching stays to the *147corners of boxes. The court below decided that the defendants’ machine infringed the sixth claim of the patent, and did not infringe the first, second, and third claims. Hence these cross appeals.
The Beach patent, for the first time in the history of the art, describes a machine for staying the corners of paper boxes with short strips of paper or muslin. Before this invention, the work had been done by…
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