Ashby v. Cleaners Specialties, Inc.

REEVES, District Judge.

This is a suit for alleged infringement of letters patent numbered 1,841,719 and 1,-855,544. The one is a device patent and the other is a method patent. The device is a means, as stated in the patent, “whereby trousers, when wet washed or otherwise cleaned, can be stretched to their natural width and length.”

It consists of an upright support with a head or arm extending from such support and equipped for multiple expansion and with such attachments as would enable the operator to stretch the leg of a pair of *86trousers longitudinally as well as laterally or transversely.

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