Legal Opinion
Barber v. Otis Motor Sales Co.
District Court, N.D. New York
Decided March 31, 1910PublishedCited by 4 opinions
In Equity. Suit by William Barber against the Otis Motor Sales Company. On final hearing. This is an action in equity to restrain alleged infringement of United States letters patent No. 781,802, dated' February 7, 1905, for “valve ■and valve gear for explosive engines,” and which patent was applied for February 24, 1902. The complainant also asks an accounting.
1Opinion of the Court
RAY, District Judge.
Claims 8 and 9 of the patent issued to William Barber, of Brooklyn, N. Y„ assignor to Ada S. Barber, No. 781,802, dated February 7, 1905, applied for February 24, 1902, are in issue. These claims read as follows:
“8. In an explosive motor, the combination with an explosion chamber having a T-shaped gas passage the main central or stem portion of which forms the explosive vapor inlet, of a valve seat ring provided with gas passages located in the end of the head portion of the T-passage adjacent to the explosion chamber, a puppet valve carried by the valve seat ring opening…
2Cited by4 opinions
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