Dernell Potato Products Co. v. Snelling

MANTON, Circuit Judge.

This patent No. 1,199,124, granted Sepr tember 26, 1916, for a new and useful improvement in food products, was held valid and infringed below. It consists of a process ■of frying or cooking food products, especially potato chips, in grease or fat, and then entirely removing the absorbable grease or fat from the cooked products. This removal is accomplished, according to the teachings of the patent, by the use of ether, alcohol, butane, pentane, and petroleum ether. After the ■chips are cooked, they are soaked or washed irt one of these solutions until all the grease is…