Legal Opinion
McElrath v. Industrial Rayon Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided November 10, 1941No. 4796PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SO PER, Circuit Judge.
The patent in suit, granted to McElrath on March 18, 1930, on an application filed November 9, 1927, relates to improvements for bleaching, dyeing, washing and otherwise treating with proper liquids skeins of fibres such as cotton, wool or artificial silk. The patented structure was especially intended by the patentee for use in the artificial silk industry in which, according to the patent, experience has shown that the less the silk is handled in processing, the less injury is done. The patentee was familiar with an apparatus composed of several units in whose…
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