Carlton v. Bokee
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Maryland. William Carlton et al., ás assignees of Christian Reichmann, filed their bill in equity in the court below to restrain Howard Bokee from infringing a patent for an improvement-in lamps, granted to Reiehmann on the 21st of'September, 1858, and reissued to Carlton and one Merrill on the 11th of August, 1868. The court bélow dismissed the bill, and the .complainant ■ took' this appeal.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Maryland. William Carlton et al., ás assignees of Christian Reichmann, filed their bill in equity in the court below to restrain Howard Bokee from infringing a patent for an improvement-in lamps, granted to Reiehmann on the 21st of'September, 1858, and reissued to Carlton and one Merrill on the 11th of August, 1868. The court bélow dismissed the bill, and the .complainant ■ took' this appeal. The case-can -be gathered from the facts stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
stated the facts and delivered the opinion of the court.
The lamp, as patented to Reiehmann, was one of a large number of attempts made about the time to utilize petroleum aud its various products for purposes of illuminatiou. The old lamps adapted to sperm oil, lard, and other gross and sluggish oils were unfitted for the use of so volatile and dangerous a substance. In them the flame was set close to the lamp, and the tube holding the wick was projected downward into the oil, so' that the heat of the' flame might be communicated thereto in order to render it more fluid aud susceptible to the…
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