American Pneumatic Tool Co. v. Fisher
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
This was a suit in equity by the American Pneumatic Tool Company against Robert Fisher and others for infringement of a patent for a pneumatic drilling tool.
1Opinion of the Court
WHEELER, District Judge.
This suit is brought upon patent No. 364,081, dated May 31, 1887, and granted to Albert J. Bates for a pneumatic drilling tool; and upon No. 373,746, dated November 22, 1887, and granted to James S. MacCoy, but not now claimed to have been infringed. These tools are for doing work done by hand tools with a mallet. They are cylindrical, for being held in, and guided to *332the work by, the hand, with the working tool held by it at one end, hammered by a piston moved very rapidly by air forced in at the other end, a ad directed automatically by a valve working transversely,…
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- Potts v. CreagerSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
- Railway Co. v. SaylesSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
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