Timolat v. Manning

COXE, District Judge.

This suit is founded upon letters patent, No. 369,120, granted to John Moffet, August 30, 1887, for a portable drilling machine, which substitutes steam or compressed air for hand’power in drilling holes.in metallic structures. The specification states that prior to the invention the holes for bolts ^ and rivets which it was necessary to make, after the heavy steel and iron parts were placed in position, were bored by the ordinary ratchet-drill manipulated by the hand of the artisan. This was a tedious and fatiguing process. The object of. the invention is to furnish the…