Wheaton v. Norton
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of California. This was a suit by Edwin Norton and Oliver W. Norton against Milton A. Wheaton for infringement of letters patent No. 267,014, issued November 7, 1882, to Edwin Norton for alleged improvements in machines for putting on the ends of tin cans.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of California. This was a suit by Edwin Norton and Oliver W. Norton against Milton A. Wheaton for infringement of letters patent No. 267,014, issued November 7, 1882, to Edwin Norton for alleged improvements in machines for putting on the ends of tin cans. The machine used by the defendant was made under letters patent No. 477,584, which were granted to him June 21, 1892. In the circuit court a decree was entered sustaining the patent sued on, finding infringement, and granting an injunction. 57 Fed. 927. Defendant…
1Opinion of the Court
ROSS, Circuit Judge.
In sheet-metal can manufacture, where the heads are applied to the outside of the body, the heads are struck from circular sheets of metal by means of dies, one of which is a plunger of the shape and size of the inner diameter of the can-head flange, and the other of which is a matrix or raised die of the depth of the flange and of the diameter of the exterior of the flange. The circular disk of sheet metal being laid on this matrix, and the plunger depressed to force the sheet into it, the result is that the flange is upturned around the margin of the sheet-metal disk,…
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