Legal Opinion
Overweight Counterbalance Elevator Co. v. Improved Order of Red Men's Hall Ass'n
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 13, 1899No. 470PublishedCited by 6 opinions
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of California. For opinion of circuit court, see 86 Fed. 338.
1Opinion of the Court
HAWLEY, District Judge.
This is an action at law to recover damages for the alleged infringement of letters patent No. 257,943, issued May 16, 1882, to Philip Hinkle, of San Francisco, Cal., for "an improvement in freight and passenger elevators.” The invention claimed by Hinkle is stated in the specifications of the patent, as follows:
“My invention lias reference to an arrangement for re-enforcing the lifting power of any given freight or passenger elevator witliout increasing the working power of the engine or motor that drives it; and it consists in the application of an overbalance…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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- The Corn-Planter PatentSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
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