Brown v. Piper
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the ' District of Massachusetts. Piper filed a bill to enjoin Brown and Seavey from infringing two patents, one of which, not being insisted on at the hearing, need not be considered. . The other — No. 732, dated March 19,1861 — makes claim as follows: — “ Preserving fish and other articles in a close chamber by means of a freezing mixture, having ño contact with the atmosphere of the preserving chamber.”
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the ' District of Massachusetts. Piper filed a bill to enjoin Brown and Seavey from infringing two patents, one of which, not being insisted on at the hearing, need not be considered. . The other — No. 732, dated March 19,1861 — makes claim as follows: — “ Preserving fish and other articles in a close chamber by means of a freezing mixture, having ño contact with the atmosphere of the preserving chamber.” The defendants by their answer, among other objections not necessary to be mentioned, deñied the novelty of the alleged invention. The…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Swathe
The bill is founded upon two patents granted by the United States to the appellee, — one numbered 732, of the 19th of March, 1861; the other numbered 36,107, and dated Aug. 5, 1862. The second and later patent was not relied upon in the argument here-, and may, therefore, be laid out of view. Our attention will be confined to the prior one. It is declared in the specification to be “ for a new and improved method of preserving fish and meats.” The invention is alleged to consist “ in a method of preserving fish and other articles in a chamber, and cooling the latter by means of a freezing…
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