Crompton & Knowles Loom Works v. Stafford Co.

PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.

This bill charges infringement of claims 13 and 14 of letters patent No. 692,935, issued to Harry W. Smith on February 11, 1902, for a weft replenishing mechanism for looms. The claims in suit are as follows:

*842“13. In a loom the following instrumentalities: A filling-changing mechanism, a lay, a detecting mechanism, including two feeler-fingers adapted to enter the shuttle and feel for the filling, and mechanical means under control of said feeler-fingers for operating the filling-changing mechanism to supply fresh filling when that in the shuttle has become nearly…