Ham Boiler Corp. v. Hugo

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The patents- in suit relate .to inventions in meat, and especially in ham boilers, in which there had long been a substantial development, which had progressed from a press with open ends, in which the juices were lost, to closed receptacles. Earlier patents show a metal box to hold the ham, a telescopic cover, a crossbar over the cover, adjustable and detachable locking devices between the bar and the box, and a coyer resiliently held against the ham so that it may rise and fall as the ham contracts and expands in cooking. To produce a ham that is solid, and…