Reece Button-Hole Ma. Co. v. Globe Button-Hole Ma. Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
'Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. This was an action by the lieece Buttonhole Machine Company against, the Globe Buttonhole Machine Company and others for infringement of letters patent Xos. 240,546 and 349,359, to John Beece, for buttonhole sewing machines. The latter patent was withdrawn in the court below before the hearing.
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'Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. This was an action by the lieece Buttonhole Machine Company against, the Globe Buttonhole Machine Company and others for infringement of letters patent Xos. 240,546 and 349,359, to John Beece, for buttonhole sewing machines. The latter patent was withdrawn in the court below before the hearing. The claims of patent No. 240,546, which were in controversy, are as follows: 5. In a buttonhole sewing machine, a framework for the needle bar and looper, and a bedplate to hold the material, combined with two cams…
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
The bill in this case was framed with reference io two patents, hut one was withdrawn before the hear*960ing in the court-below, so that all we now have to consider are claims 5, 11, 12, 13, and 18 of No. 240,546, issued to John Reece, April 26, 1881. The main question relates to the proposition that this patent can in no event cover a machine of which the frame is stationary and the plate moves. It grows out of the fact that in the specifications and claims are many expressions indicating that the frame moves and the plate is fixed. A part of the preamble is as follows:
“This…
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