National Folding Box & Paper Co. v. American Paper Pail & Box Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
In Equity. Suit by the National Folding Box & Paper Company against the American Paper Pail & Box Company for infringement of letters patent No. 171,866, granted January 4, 1876, to Reuben Ritter, for an improvement in paper boxes. Heard on motion for a preliminary injunction.
1Opinion of the Court
Lacombe, Circuit J udge.
The patent sued upon was construed by this court in Box Co. v. Nugent, 41 Fed. Rep. 140. For the purposes of this motion, that construction is to be accepted; especially in view of the fact that no new defenses are interposed. The patent- was limited to a locking device, which operated by the engagement of a hooking device with a slot, not at a single point of contact, but where the hook and slot *914were so arranged as to be brought in contact, .straight edge to straight edge. The defendant’s box, shown in Exhibit A, operates, and seems devised to operate, in that way, as…
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