Troy Laundry Machinery Co. v. International Equipment Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts; George W. Anderson, Judge. Suit in equity by the Troy Eaundry Machinery Company, limited, against the International Equipment Company, doing business as the Empire Eaundry Machinery Company. Decree for defendant, and complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
This is an appeal from the decree of the District Court dismissing a bill for infringement of claims 2 and 12 of letters patent to E. Balzer, No. 1,213,999, January 30, 1917 (on application filed April 27, 1914), for drying apparatus. The claims in suit are as follows:
•‘2. In a drying tumbler, the combination, with a casing, of a rotary foram-inous cylinder in said casing, heating coils, a blower for circulating air *892around the heating coils and through the cylinder, a screen through which the air passes before being drawn through the blower, and means for permitting…
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