Universal Draft Gear Attachment Co. v. Bush
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois; Kenesaw M. Landis, Judge. Suit in equity by Samuel P. Bush against the Universal Draft Gear Attachment Company. Decree for complainant, and defendant appeals.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois; Kenesaw M. Landis, Judge. Suit in equity by Samuel P. Bush against the Universal Draft Gear Attachment Company. Decree for complainant, and defendant appeals. The appellant is defendant below to a bill filed by Samuel P. Bush, patentee, for infringement of his patent No. 838,379, issued December 11, 1906, for draft gearing, and this appeal is from a decree of the District Court which sustains the charges of infringement. The patent in suit contains the following recitals in the…
1Opinion of the CourtSeaman, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The decree against the appellant, defendant below, adjudges infringement of the Bush patent, No. 838,379, issued December 11, 1906, for “improvements in draft gearing,” and the charge of infringement is predicated on the first of the three claims specified for the grant, reading as follows:
“1. A yoke for draft gearing, comprising top and bottom members, rear end, and hooded forward end, constructed to receive a coupler, and all cast integral, and means for securing a coupler in the hooded end of the yoke.”
In the specifications it is stated as the object of…
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