Michigan Cent. R. v. Consolidated Car-Heating Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan. This is a suit by a hill in equity filed in the court below against the Michigan Central Railroad Company by the appellee, the Consolidated Car-Heating Company, to restrain the infringement by the railroad company of rights secured to iiilmore D. Cody, as inventor, and to John W. Hayes, as assignee of a part interest, by letters patent No. 329,017, for improvements in steam car heaters,…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan. This is a suit by a hill in equity filed in the court below against the Michigan Central Railroad Company by the appellee, the Consolidated Car-Heating Company, to restrain the infringement by the railroad company of rights secured to iiilmore D. Cody, as inventor, and to John W. Hayes, as assignee of a part interest, by letters patent No. 329,017, for improvements in steam car heaters, granted October 27, 1885, upon an application filed August 11; 1884. ■ The allegations of the bill are, in substance,…
1Opinion of the Court 1
Having stated the case as above,
2Opinion of the Court · SeverensSeverens, District Judge
Prior to Cody’s application for a patent, a variety of devices had been contrived for heating cars by steam or hot water in pipes, and some of them had been patented.* In some there was shown a heater of water or generator of steam under each car, which circulated the water or steam through side coils in the car, and back to the boiler, or, in ease of steam, to a trap. Others took steam from the locomotive, and carried it directly through the body of the cars, either entire, or split into divided currents in each car, where it was circulated at the sides in…
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