Crown Cork & Seal Co. v. Aluminum Stopper Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maryland.
1Opinion of the Court
BTC AWLEY, District Judge.
Prior to the inventions hereinafter to be described, which are the subject-matter of this controversy, the common method of stopping bottles was with cork, wood, rubber, or some other resilient material inserted longitudinally into the neck of the bottle, and held there by its elastic lateral pressure in frictional contact with the circumference, supplemented, in cases where gaseous liquids caused internal pressure, by wire or twine on the outside of the bottle head. About the year 1876, William Painter, foreman of the machine shops of Murrell & Keizer, began…
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