Smith-Lee Co. v. Plympton Paper Products Co.

WINSLOW, District Judge.

This action concerns the patent known as the Meldrum patent, the property of the plaintiff, No. 1,-458,535, issued June 12, 1923. The only claim in issue is No. 1, as follows:

“1. A bottle cap comprising a disk of paper board having a wire ‘pull,’ said wire being in the form of a loop having its ends passing through the disk within and near the margin thereof from the upper side to the lower side and again passing through from the lower side to the upper side, the extreme ends being folded against the upper face of the cap.”

The device is a bottle cap, particularly used…