Earle v. Wanamaker

BUTLER, District Judge.

The suit is for infringement of letters patent No. 533,408, for improvement in cuffs, dated January 29,1895. The invention and claim are stated as follows:

My invention relates to cuffs, and has for its object to improve the construction thereof, and especially that class of cuffs which are adapted to be used in connection with link buttons, and it consists in a cuff having the features of construction hereinafter set forth.

I have ascertained by experiment that the ends of the cuff (especially where they are joined together by link buttons) will lose a portion of the…