General Electric Co. v. Smith

BROWN, District Judge.

This suit is for infringement of letters patent No. 502,541 to Carl Thalacker, dated August 1, 1893, for improvements in electric safety-fuses. Claims 1, 2, and 4 are in issue:

‘‘Claim 1. In an electric safety-fuse, the combination of a main safety-fuse, an auxiliary safety-fuse, and a box or casing completely enveloping the main fuse, but so constructed as to permit tbe condition of the auxiliary fuse to be seen.

“(2) In an electric safety-fuse, the combination of a main fuse, an auxiliary fuse, and a casing completely enveloping the main fuse, but only partially…