Kessler v. Inks

GROSSCUP, Circuit Judge.

The action helow was to restrain the infringement of Letters Patent No. 562,895, issued June 28, 1896, to A. C. Gruhlke and W. P. Kessler. The improvement covered by the patent is a cigar lighter, of the suspended order, so arranged that the movement of the handle in the act of lighting the cigar ignites, automatically, through an electrode, the wick, and, by means of a .tight chamber, extinguishes the wick, when the handle is released and drops into its place.

The cigar lighter charged as an infringement is practically of the same character, and operates in the same…