Electric Cable Joint Co. v. Brooklyn Edison Co.

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This is the ordinary suit for patent infringement. The patent is No. 3,172,323 to Philip Torchio, and the only claim in issue is claim 4, which reads as follows: “An electric cable, comprising a sheath, a line conductor having a joint, a body of pervious insulating material inclosing said joint, the said sheath being removed for a distance sufficient to expose said pervious body, a sleeve of impervious material of greater diameter than said body, inclosing the same and hermetically united at its ends to said cable sheath, a receptacle communicating with the…