American Can Co. v. McGinnis

MORRIS, District Judge.

This is a bill in equity, filed by the American Can Company against the defendants, praying an injunction and an account for the alleged infringement- of a patent. The complainant’s patent is No. 477,584, June 21, 1892, granted to M. A. Wheaton, of San Francisco, for an improvement in can-heading machines.

It is claimed for the Wheaton machine that it was the first practical and successful machine which would head cans with a continuous movement,' and not with a stop and start movement to enable the operator to insert the can and bottom and top in the machine, during the…