Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. v. Saranac Lake Electric Light Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York. These are cross appeals from a decree of the circuit court, Northern district of New York. 108 Fed. 221. Suit was brought by complainant upon reissued letters patent No. 11,031 to Rankin Kennedy, September 24, 1889, and letters patent No. 469,809, to William Stanley, March 1, 1892. The circuit court held the Kennedy patent void, and rhe first and third claims of the Stanley patent to be…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York. These are cross appeals from a decree of the circuit court, Northern district of New York. 108 Fed. 221. Suit was brought by complainant upon reissued letters patent No. 11,031 to Rankin Kennedy, September 24, 1889, and letters patent No. 469,809, to William Stanley, March 1, 1892. The circuit court held the Kennedy patent void, and rhe first and third claims of the Stanley patent to be valid and infringed.
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
The Kennedy patent is for an improvement in the method of distributing and regulating alternating electric currents by secondary generators. The patentee arranged secondary generators (transformers) in multiple. They had theretofore been arranged in series. When so arranged, they became self-regulating as to primary current and power; in other words, each transformer would take its proper share of current, varying according to the number of lights burning on it, so that the lights on one transformer were independent of the lights on another transformer. In the more…
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