Kane v. Steinmetz

ROBB, Associate Justice.

Appeal from concurrent decisions of the Patent Office tribunals in an interference proceeding awarding priority of invention to Steinmetz and Standerwick.

The invention relates to turbine-driven dynamos designed primarily to furnish current for headlights on locomotives. One of the problems to he solved was to provide a suitable regulator, which would control the speed of the turbine under the various conditions of use. Of the seven counts of the issue, the first sufficiently illustrates the invention, as follows:

“1. A generator connected to supply energy to a variable…