Steenstrup v. Morton

VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

This appeal is from the Commissioner of Patents in an interference proceeding awarding priority of invention to appellee Morton. The issue is in two counts, as follows:

“1. In an are welding apparatus wherein a, welding head is arranged to move with relation to the work to be welded and wherein means are arranged to feed a fusible electrode through said head toward the work automatically at a rate depending upon a function of the energy at the are, the combination with said welding head of means for guiding the arc along the surfaces to be welded and for adjusting…