Bradley v. Eccles
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeals from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York. The appeal in the first cause is from an interlocutory decree for injunction and accounting, sustaining the single claim of United States letters patent No. 609,928, August 30, 1898 (application September 28, 1897), to complainant, for an improvement in thill-couplings.
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Appeals from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York. The appeal in the first cause is from an interlocutory decree for injunction and accounting, sustaining the single claim of United States letters patent No. 609,928, August 30, 1898 (application September 28, 1897), to complainant, for an improvement in thill-couplings. The appeal in the second cause is from a similar interlocutory decree sustaining the validity, and finding infringement of two certain United States design patents, viz., No. 28,571, Hay 10, 1898 (application March 14, 1898), design for…
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
The mechanical patent (609,928), as the specification asserts, “relates to that class of thill-couplings which comprise a divided draft-eye on the vehicle, and a spherical wrist or knuckle on the thill or pole iron, which is adapted to be seated in the draft-eye. The object of the invention is to provide the coupling with a packing which effectually prevents rattling and is very durable.”
The precise thing covered by the patent is most clearly indicated in one of the drawings, which is here reproduced:
Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the wrist of the thill-iron, with the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Rowe v. Blodgett & Clapp Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1901
- Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. v. Triumph Electric Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1899
- Bradley v. EcclesU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York · 1903
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