Hayes Pump & Planter Co. v. Friend Mfg. Co.

MANTON, Circuit Judge.

This suit is for infringement of a patent for a nozzle, The first, third, and fourth claims are involved. It is claimed that appellant’s spray guns embody the construction and novelty of appellee’s patent. The inventor says that the invention relates to spray nozzles, and has for its principal object a nozzle of simple economic construction through which liquid may bo forced and distributed in a finely diffused spray. Another object is to provide a nozzle having a minimum number of parts, so constructed that it might be readily and adjustably changed from a spray to a…