Wisconsin Compressed Air House Cleaning Co. v. American Compressed Air Cleaning Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. This appeal is from a decree enjoining the Wisconsin Company from infringing letters patent No. 521,174, June 12, 1894, to Enoch Nation, assignor, the property of the American Company.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. This appeal is from a decree enjoining the Wisconsin Company from infringing letters patent No. 521,174, June 12, 1894, to Enoch Nation, assignor, the property of the American Company. Figure 2 of the drawings is here reproduced: The specification and claims read thus: “Be it known that I, Enoch Nation, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and state of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful improvements in dusters; and I do hereby declare the following…
1Opinion of the CourtBaker, Circuit Judge
As the decree will be reversed for other reasons, we deem it unnecessary here to agitate the first and second questions.
i. The respective experts agree in defining a duster as that which sweeps dust away from a surface, and a renovator as that which restores to freshness throughout; and the distinction is justified by the lexicographers. Nation classified his device as a “duster,” and stated that his invention “relates to improvements in mechanism for cleaning carpets, velvets, furs, and goods of any kind having a nap surface, and will be found specially useful in dusting upholstered goods,…
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