Sewing-Machine Co. v. Frame

The plaintiff, having acquired title to Shorey’s patent for cutting and trimming attachment for sewing-machines, issued March 28,1882, charges the defendant with infringement. The claim of the patent is in the following language: “The combination, substantially as herein described, with stitch-forming mechanism, of a rotary cutter having its cutting edge or edges eccentric. ” The specifications indicate the state of the art and the result sought by the inventor, and describé the invention reached, so well that we cannot do better than to adopt and insert the language here:

*597“Cutting or trimming…