Burr v. Cowperthwait
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut
This was a bill in equity, founded on two reissued letters patent granted to the plaintiffs [Henry A. Burr and others], as assignees of Henry A. Wells, one on the 30th of September, 1856, [No. 300], and the other on the 7th of October, 1856, for inventions connected with the manufacture of fur hat-bodies. The original patent [No. 4.472] was granted to Wells on the 25th of April, 1846.
1Opinion of the Court
INGERSOLL, District Judge.
Previous to the year 1846, efforts had been made to form hat-bodies, by throwing the fibres of the wool or fur, by means of a brush or picker cylinder, in proper proportions, on to a perforated cone, exhausted by a fan or other contrivance at its base, to hold the fibres on the cone, by the currents .of air, which rush through the perforated cone, and to sufficiently harden the bat of wool or fur, while on the cone, to enable the operator to remove it from the eone, as formed, to go through the other processes, to make a complete hat; but, previous to the discovery…
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