Williams v. American String Wrapper Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois
This was a suit in equity by Benajah Williams against the American String Wrapper Company and others for alleged infringement of a patent.
1Opinion of the Court
GROSSCUP, District Judge.
The bill is to restrain infringement of letters patent No. 558,244, granted April 14, 1896, to complainant, for improvement upon string wrappers. The most obvious way of putting a wrapper upon a newspaper was to wrap it round and round until the edge of the wrapper was reached, and then paste it down with mucilage or some other preparation. The difficulty of opening such a wrapper, however, early led to the following improvement: A string or thread was inserted in the wrapper, far enough back from the outer edge to escape the paste or mucilage. The person desiring to…
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