Deering v. Winona Harvester Works
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA. This was a bill in equity for the infringement of letters patent No. 223,812, issued January 27, 1880, to William F. Olin, for an improvement in harvesters, and patent No. 272,598, issued February 20, 1883, to John F. Steward, for an improvement- in grain binders.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA. This was a bill in equity for the infringement of letters patent No. 223,812, issued January 27, 1880, to William F. Olin, for an improvement in harvesters, and patent No. 272,598, issued February 20, 1883, to John F. Steward, for an improvement- in grain binders. The original bill was founded upon five different patents, but appellant acquiesced in the decree of the Circuit Court dismissing his bill as to all but the two patents above named. In the patent to Olin for an improvement in harvesting machines, the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
1. The Olin patent relates to a harvesting machine, and more particularly to a certain method of elevating the grain from the harvester platform, upon which it falls as it is cut, to the top of the delivery apron, where it is discharged from the machine either into the hands of a binder, or into a mechanical grain binder, as the case may be.
In machines of this description the grain, as it is cut, falls upon a platform, and is carried to the base of - an endless belt provided with teeth, which seize- the grain and carry it over ■the driving wheel of the harvester,, üp to a higher level than…
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