Lowrey v. Cowles Electric Smelting & Aluminum Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern Ohio
The bill in this case was filed by G-rosvenor P. Lowrey, a citizen of New York. He has since died, and the case has been revived in the name of his executrix. The bill averred that Lowrey was the owner by assignment of two patents issued to Charles S. Bradley for a process of separating metals from their ores by the use of the electric current both to fuse and to electrolyze the ore.
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The bill in this case was filed by G-rosvenor P. Lowrey, a citizen of New York. He has since died, and the case has been revived in the name of his executrix. The bill averred that Lowrey was the owner by assignment of two patents issued to Charles S. Bradley for a process of separating metals from their ores by the use of the electric current both to fuse and to electrolyze the ore. The bill charged that the defendant the Cowles Electric Smelting & Aluminum Company, a corporation of Ohio, had executed and recorded in the patent office an assignment of the same patents, in which it purported…
1Opinion of the CourtTaft, Circuit Judge
(after stating tbe facts). We have in this case to deal with the use of the electric current to perform two functions in metallurgical operations. Whenever a current of sufficient quantity and intensity is passed through a chemical com-, pound in a fluid condition, it will cause a chemical disruption, and one of the elements will go to the anode, or the place at which the current enters the fluid mass, and the other will go to the cathode, or place where the current leaves it. This chemical dissolution by the current is called “electrolysis.” If the compound to be treated is metallic, the…
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