Winchester Repeating Arms Co. v. Peters Cartridge Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
In Equity. Suit by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company against the Peters Cartridge Company for infringement of the Gardner letters patent, No. 563,157, for a paper shell cartridge.
1Opinion of the Court
PLATT, District Judge.
This patent is for an improvement in paper shell cartridges. These cartridges are fitted into a metallic cap, and the object- of the invention is to so arrange the metal cap as to prevent the paper shell from breaking off at or near the main edge of the cap; thus getting rid of the trouble of extracting the mutilated paper tube by hand, and also to save the paper tube intact, so that it can be reloaded and used again.
In explaining it, the patentee says that his invention consists in a paper shell cartridge composed in part of a paper tube and a drawn sheet-metal cap…
2Cited by1 opinion
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