Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Rubber Tire Wheel Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Ohio. This is a bill to restrain infringement of letters patent No. 554,-675, issued February 18, 1896, to Arthur W. Grant, for improvements in rubber tire wheels.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Ohio. This is a bill to restrain infringement of letters patent No. 554,-675, issued February 18, 1896, to Arthur W. Grant, for improvements in rubber tire wheels. The claims of the patent are as follows: “(1) A vehicle wheel having a metallic rim with angularly projecting flanges to form a channel or groove with tapered or inclined sides, a rubber tire, the inner portion of which is adapted to fit in said groove or channel, and the outer portion having sides at an angle to the inner portion, the angle or corner…
1Opinion of the CourtBurton, Circuit Judge
The subject of the controversy is the simple one of solid rubber -tires for vehicles. When Grant entered the field as an inventor of -rubber tires, he found it occupied by an army of patentees who had preceded him, and no less than 80 prior patents have been put in ■evidence as anticipations or as illustrations of the history of the •art. Grant, in part, seems to recognize the crowded character of the field open to him, for he concludes an account of his construction by claiming that, by his mode of construction, he has produced “a rubber tired wheel rim which is capable of more use and which…
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