Silsby v. Foote
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an-appeal from tbé Circuit Court of tbe United States for tbe northern district of New York, sitting as a court of equity. In May, 1842; Eoote obtained a patent for an improvement in regulating tbe draught or beat of stoves..
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This was an-appeal from tbé Circuit Court of tbe United States for tbe northern district of New York, sitting as a court of equity. In May, 1842; Eoote obtained a patent for an improvement in regulating tbe draught or beat of stoves.. Tbe claim which be made was this: • "What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by letters patent, is the application of the expansive and contracting power of a metallic rod by different .degrees of heat, to open and close a damper which governs the admission of air into a stove or other structure in which it may be used, by which a more perfect control…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson
This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the northern district of New York.
The bill was filed in the court below by Foote against the defendants for an alleged infringement of a patent for an improvement in regulating the draught or heat of stoves. The bill, among other things, set out a trial at law between the parties upon the patent, and a verdict for the plaintiff; that the defendants since the trial and verdict continued their infringement, and had even increased the business of making and vending the complainant’s stove regulators.
The complainant…
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