Consolidated Fastener Co. v. Hays
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York. This case comes before this court on appeal from an order of the circuit court, Northern district of New York, refusing to dissolve a preliminary injunction theretofore granted, restraining the defendants from the alleged infringement of claim 2 of United States letters patent to Albert G. Mead', No. 325,480, September 1, 1885, for improvement in buttons.
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
The specification states that the "invention relates to buttons, more particularly those secured to the fabric or cloth by metallic fastenings, and provided with an open central bore, which adapts them for use, especially with spring.studs, while in the particular ‘button finish,’ so called, combined with the central bore, and in the general arrangement and disposition of the several parts with respect to each other, is embodied the subject of the inven*985tion.” Reference may be bad to the drawing of Mead’s device, infra, which is a reproduction on a larger scale of Fig. 1…
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