Red Jacket Manuf'g Co. v. Davis
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Nppeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. .This is a suit in equity, brought bjr the Red Jacket Manufacturing Company,' the appellant, to restrain the alleged infringement of letters patent of the 'United States No. 241,573, issued May 17, 1881, to Benjamin C. Vanduzen, for a pump. The drawings, specification, and claim of the patent are as follows: “United States Patent Office. “Benjamin C. Vanduzen. of Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Nppeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. .This is a suit in equity, brought bjr the Red Jacket Manufacturing Company,' the appellant, to restrain the alleged infringement of letters patent of the 'United States No. 241,573, issued May 17, 1881, to Benjamin C. Vanduzen, for a pump. The drawings, specification, and claim of the patent are as follows: “United States Patent Office. “Benjamin C. Vanduzen. of Cincinnati, Ohio. “Pump. “Specification Forming Part of Letters Patent No. 241,573, Dated May 17, 1881. “Application Filed November 4, 18S0.…
1Opinion of the Court
JENKINS, Circuit Judge.
The problem which Vanduzen sought to solve was to so construct a double-acting pump with, two cylinders that: the plungers and valves could be removed for repairs and other purposes without lifting the pump from the well, or removing it from its fixed position. To do this in a single-acting pump which liad but one cylinder was not difficult, and had long been practiced; but in such double-acting pump (unless in the McCauley pump, which we hereafter consider), so far as this record discloses, it was entirely novel, and unknown! until the patent in suit. Vanduzen, by Ms…
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