Anchor Cap & Closure Corp. v. Pritchard

LEARNED HAND, District Judge.

There are four patents here in suit which should be treated separately.

Patent 770,751.

[ 1 ] This patent has ,no predecessors, except Kalling’s two patents, 561,792 and 697,491. They differed from Hull’s disclosure, because the bead was deformed by squeezing it against the side of the glass. It makes no difference whether the gasket was of a hard enough con - sistency, so that the nearest edges of the bead never touched the glass, or whether it collapsed so far that a part of the pressure was between metal and glass. In either case, the glass had to hear the whole…