Westinghouse Air-Brake Co. v. Christensen Engineering Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
In Equity. Suit for infringement of a patent. On motion for preliminary injunction. The patent sued upon is No. 360,070, March 29, 1887, to George Westing-house, Jr., for improvements in fluid pressure automatic brake mechanism.
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In Equity. Suit for infringement of a patent. On motion for preliminary injunction. The patent sued upon is No. 360,070, March 29, 1887, to George Westing-house, Jr., for improvements in fluid pressure automatic brake mechanism. The claims relied on are the first four, which read as follows: “(1) In a brake-mechanism, the combination of a main air-pipe, an auxiliary reservoir, a brake-cylinder, a triple valve, and an auxiliary-valve device, actuated by the piston of the triple valve, and independent of the main valve thereof, for admitting air in the application of the brake directly from the…
1Opinion of the CourtLacombe, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts). The entire subject of the automatic air brake art, down to and including the subsequent improvement of George Westinghouse, Jr. (No. 376,887), has been most fully discussed in this circuit in two litigations; the first brought upon No. 376,837 (Westinghouse v. Air-Brake Co. [C. C.] 59 Fed. 581; Id., 11 C. C. A. 528, 63 Fed. 962), and the second upon No. 360,070 (Westinghouse Air-Brake Co. v. New York Air-Brake Co. [C. C.] 65 Fed. 99; Id., 16 C. C. A. 371, 69 Fed. 715). It would be idle repetition to rehearse again this twicetold tale. To the judges in this circuit…
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- Boyden Power-Brake Co. v. Westinghouse Westinghouse v. Boyden Power-Brake Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1898
- Westinghouse v. Boyden Power Brake Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1898
- Westinghouse Air-Brake Co. v. New York Air-Brake Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1894
- Westinghouse v. New York Air-Brake Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1893
- New York Air-Brake Co. v. Westinghouse Air-Brake Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1895
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- Westinghouse Air-Brake Co. v. Christensen Engineering Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1900