Autopiano Co. v. American Player Action Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here upon appeal from a decree of the District Conn. Southern District of New York, dismissing the bill in a suit for infringement of patent. The patent is reissue No. 13,398, granted to complainant April 2, 1912, for an invention made by James O’Connor on a “perforated note sheet guide.”
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here upon appeal from a decree of the District Conn. Southern District of New York, dismissing the bill in a suit for infringement of patent. The patent is reissue No. 13,398, granted to complainant April 2, 1912, for an invention made by James O’Connor on a “perforated note sheet guide.” The original patent, No. 789,053, dated May 2, 1905, was before this court in Autopiano Co. v. Am-phion Piano Co., 186 Fed. 159, 108 C. C. A. 291. We sustained a decision of Judge Pland, which held the…
1Opinion of the Court
1 ACOM BE, Circuit Judge.
[1] The opinions of Judge Hand and Judge Mayer 1 set forth in detail the device of the patent and may be referred to. The apparatus of the patent relates to self-playing pianos, in which the keys are put in action by drawing a perforated note sheet transversely over a tracker bar which contains a series of apertures, each communicating by a tube to the pneumatic device for operating the corresponding striker of the note. As the perforations uncover the apertures in sequence the proper actions are successively struck in order to render the musical composition. It is of…
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