Respro, Inc. v. Star Backing Co.

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The patent in suit relates to a process for making artificial leather. The process consists of five steps thus described in the specification p. 1,1. 32: “The leather substitute is made by taking suitable 'woven fabric and passing it through a napping machine to pull a part of the twisted fibres in the threads or cords composing the fabric, to form a fibrous surface on each side of the woven fabric, winding. the prepared fabric in a machine upon a core to form a tightly wound roll. The rolls of fabric are placed in a machine similar to a doubling or facing…