Walker Patent Pivoted Bin Co. v. Brown

ARCHBAED, District Judge.1

If the plaintiffs’ bin is a patentable invention, in view of the prior state of the art, it is conceded that there has been an infringement; and the concession is not a large one, for the bin constructed by the defendants so exactly reproduces its controlling features that one has to look closely to discover any difference between them. It is found in two unimportant particulars, — with regard to the axis of the bin and the display partition; at most mere details of construction, in which, in the matter of simplicity, the defendants may have somewhat improved upon…