Metallic Rubber Tire Co. v. Hartford Rubber Works Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit'Court of the United States for the District of Connecticut; James P. Platt, Judge. Suit in equity by the Metallic Rubber Tire Company against the Hartford Rubber Works Company. Decree for defendant, and complainant appeals. The decree of the District Court dismissed the bill in a suit to restrain the alleged infringement of letters patent No. 609,320, issued to Calvin T. Adams on August 16, 1898, for an improvement in vehicle tires.
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Appeal from the Circuit'Court of the United States for the District of Connecticut; James P. Platt, Judge. Suit in equity by the Metallic Rubber Tire Company against the Hartford Rubber Works Company. Decree for defendant, and complainant appeals. The decree of the District Court dismissed the bill in a suit to restrain the alleged infringement of letters patent No. 609,320, issued to Calvin T. Adams on August 16, 1898, for an improvement in vehicle tires. The complainant sues as assignee of the patentee.
1Opinion of the Court
NOYES, Circuit Judge.
The invention of the patent — according to the specification — relates “to means for preventing the yielding tires ■of bicycles and other wheeled vehicles from slipping on the roadway, as they are particularly apt to do when the roadway is smooth.
The patentee accomplishes his purpose by imbedding—
“in the material of which the yielding tread of the tire is composed, a peripheral succession of hard bearings, such as metallic wire, interwoven with the rubber or yielding material of the tread, so as to lie partly on the surface of the tread, the exposed portions of the wire…
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