Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. v. Thum
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here upon appeal from a final decree of the circuit court, Eastern district of New York, dismissing the bill. The suit is for infringement of United States letters patent No. 599,447, granted Eebruary 22, 1898, to complainant, as assignee of Emil Reisky, for “improvement in bowling apparatus.”
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
The improvement of the patent relates. to that part of a bowling alley known, as the ball returnway or runway, which returns the balls from the pit end of the alley to the players’ end. Tbe old style of runway consisted of a track or trough which inclined downwardly all the way from the pit end to the players’ end, down which the balls rolled with a speed increasing all the¡ way, and dependent upon the degree of inclination given to the track. There were objections to this old style of way, which will be referred to in more detail further on. Briefly stated, most of…
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