Hailes v. Van Wormer
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Now York. Ilailes & Treadwell, manufacturers of.stoves, filed a bill in the court below against-Van'Wormer et ah, engaged in the same business, to enjoin these last from making a certain sort of coal-stoves called “ base-burning,” “ self-feeding,” or “reservoir” stoves.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Now York. Ilailes & Treadwell, manufacturers of.stoves, filed a bill in the court below against-Van'Wormer et ah, engaged in the same business, to enjoin these last from making a certain sort of coal-stoves called “ base-burning,” “ self-feeding,” or “reservoir” stoves. These stoves are so called because they have a magazine or reservoir susponded ahove the fire-pot, which may be filled with coal at its upper extremity. This, when filled, is closed'by a cover. The lower end of the reservoir or feeder is left open, and, as the coal in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Strong
The sort of stoves known as “ base-burners,” or self-feeding stoves, had been made and they were well known years before either of the complainants’ patents were granted, and it is not asserted that merely as base-burning stdves they arc within the monopoly of the patents.- The inventions claimed are alleged improvements in the structure and arrangement of such stoves. They consist in what is described as a new combination-of* old. and known devices producing a new mannfacture;'name'ly, a,stove uniting iu itself alhthe advantages of a, reservoir stove, and those of a i;evertible-draft stove…
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