R. Hoe & Co. v. Goss Printing Press Co.

(after stating the facts as above). [1] The claims in suit are for combinations of four main elements: The sliding swing; the balance; the locking means to draw on and secure the “drag”; the same means to push it away. Of these the most important is the first. Yiewed merely as movement, Cruse discovered -nothing new; his “drag” occupies the same series of positions in its course as Scott’s; the whole body is translated substantially horizontally at the same time that it rotates on its own axis. It is a matter of small moment if in either ease the center of gravity does not move in a strictly…