Wire Wheel Corp. of America v. C. T. Silver, Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
In Equity. Suit by the Wire Wheel Corporation of America, against C. T. Silver, Incorporated. Figures 1, 2, 3, 6, and 7 of the Pugh patent, and Figures 1, 2, and 5 of the Hammon patent, referred to in the opinion, are as follows: Pugh Patent. HAMMON PATENT.
1Opinion of the Court
LEARNED HAND, District Judge.
[1] As the issue of validity must in my judgment necessarily go against the patent, I shall coniine myself to a discussion of that alone. The tension wheel was concededly old; indeed, the world owes it to the imagination of that varied and amazing genius, Leonardo da Vinci. It depended upon the fact that the hub of a wheel might be made to hang from its upper spokes as well as rest on its lower. However, it was at once obvious that the spokes themselves, having no inherent rigidity, hut only tensile strength, could not suffer the torsional strains involved in a…
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