Gallagher v. United States

The merchandise involved in these protests is described by the Board of General Appraisers in its opinion as follows:

The articles here are machines for slicing meats. This slicing arrangement is a machine knife, as opposed to a hand knife, and in it the meat is cut by a disk-shaped revolving knife, either hand operated or fitted so as tó be power driven.

The report of the appraiser describes them as “Berkel’s patent hand-operated automatic meat-slicing machines,” with other apt words of description which are similar to those employed in the opinion of the board, and no question is made as to…