Higgin Mfg. Co. v. Murdock
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio. This is a bill to restrain infringement of patent No. 480,093, to Henry Higgin, for certain improvements in band-shells for wheel hubs.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio. This is a bill to restrain infringement of patent No. 480,093, to Henry Higgin, for certain improvements in band-shells for wheel hubs. The claims of the patent are as follows: “(1) As an article of manufacture, a shell for hub-bands, having an in-turned flange adapted to take over the point of the hub-band, and provided with an annular depression, substantially as and for the purpose specified. “(2) As an article of manufacture; a shell for hub-bands, adapted to engage with the point of the hub-band,…
1Opinion of the CourtLurton, Circuit Judge
The third and fourth claims of the patent are limited to the use of the shell-band of the patent with hub-bands provided with a groove adapted to take in the corresponding depression in the shell-band when driven down, and the patentee mentions no other method of using his shell-band than in connection with hub-bands provided with a groove into which the annular groove of his shell-band might lock. The first and second claims cover the shell-band, with its annular groove, as an article of manufacture; the second claim including also a corrugated portion above the groove. Though it is quite…
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