Vacuum Cleaner Co. v. Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co.

MAYER, District Judge.

The validity of the patent is not attacked, and, indeed, cannot be, in view of the recent decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Vacuum Cleaner Co. v. Innovation Electric Co., 239 Fed. 543, - C. C. A. -. The sole question is whether the two devices of defendant, known as “Bissell’s Vacuum Sweeper” and “Bissell’s Superba,” infringe claim 4; these devices being the same for the purposes concerned in this suit.

Claim 4 reads as follows:

“4. A cleaner comprising s suction chamber, provided with a narrow inlet slot, the slot being hounded and defined…