In re Braselton
District Court, District of Columbia
Appeal from a Decision of the Commissioner of Patents. Application by Chester H. Braselton for a patent. Prom a decision of the Commissioner of Patents, allowing certain of the claims and disallowing others, the applicant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
SMYTH, Chief Justice.
Braselton applied for a patent on an improvement in shoes and a process for making shoes. There were 28 claims in his application. All were allowed, except 1, 2, 4 to 11, inclusive, 25, and 26; the last two being numbered in the record 16 and 17. Claims 1, 4, and 11 are typical. They are:
‘1. The process of making shoes which consists in coating certain parts of the shoe with metal by heating the metal to a liquid and blowing the same in the form of a spray by a blast of gas against the said parts.
4. The process of making shoes which consists in coating the bottom of a…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Brown v. PiperSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
- Lovell Manufacturing Co. v. CarySupreme Court of the United States · 1893
- Arlington Mfg. Co. v. Celluloid Co.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1899
- Thayer & Chandler v. WoldU.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois · 1906
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