Sherman Car Wash Equipment Company v. Grand Car Wash, Inc.

KILEY, Circuit Judge.

Defendant Grand Car Wash, Inc. (Grand) appeals from a judgment for plaintiff Sherman Car Wash Equipment Company (Sherman) that Grand’s Lark device infringed the Beer Patent No. 3,310,824 in suit. We affirm.

The Beer patent, assigned to Sherman by Beer, is a car washing device entitled “Vehicle Washer.” The device is a “wraparound” brushing unit through two of which, placed opposite to each other, moving cars are washed by the rotating brushes. The brushes “wrap around” the car in the sense that in operation they wash the complete front, sides and rear of the car. The…