Vacuum Cleaner Co. v. Innovation Electric Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit in equity by the Vacuum Cleaner Company against the Innovation Electric Company, Incorporated. Decree for complainant, and defendant appeals.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit in equity by the Vacuum Cleaner Company against the Innovation Electric Company, Incorporated. Decree for complainant, and defendant appeals. This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court for the Southern District of New York, adjudging valid the fourth claim of letters patent No. 847,947, and granting a permanent injunction against infringement and an accounting of profits and damages subsequent to October, 1915. The patent is for a vacuum cleaner, and was before Judge Mayer, who heard the…
1Opinion of the Court
AUGUSTUS N. HAND, District Judge.
[1] The fourth claim of the patent, which alone is in question in this suit, reads as follows:
“4. A cleaner comprising a suction chamber, provided with a narrow inlet-slot, the slot being bounded and defined by lips which lie in the contact-surface of the cleaner, with the outward mouth of the slot lying in the plane of this contact-surface substantially as described.”
The patentee in his specification says:
“The object of the invention is to provide an apparatus by which the cleaning or removing of dust may be accomplished with ease and dispatch and to…
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