Lewis v. Strom

SMYTH, Chief Justice.

An interference was declared between the respective applications of Lewis and Strom. It concerns a machine for individually wrapping articles, such as cigars, in tissue paper. There are eleven counts in the interference, which are sufficiently illustrated, so far as our purpose is concerned, by count 1. It reads as follows:

A devise for individually wrapping articles, comprising a combination, a pair of supporting rolls, a coaeting presser roll thereabove, a belt running with constant tension and contact over all of said rolls, a driving roll for imparting continuous…