MacColl v. Knowles Loom Works
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. This was a suit in equity by James B. MacColl against the Knowles Loom Works for alleged infringement of a patent for improvements in lappet-looms. The circuit court found that the defendant’s loom' was not an infringement of the patent, and accordingly dismissed the bill. 87 Fed. 727. From this decree the complainant has appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
COLT, Circuit Judge.
This appeal relates to a patent issued to James R. MacColl for improvements in lappet-looms, dated October 27, 1896, and numbered 570,259. The court below held that the defendant did not infringe, and dismissed the bill. The controversy mainly turns upon the proper construction of the first claim of the patent.' This claim is to be construed in the light of the specification and drawings of the patent, and of the prior art; and, so construed, its meaning seems to -us clear and intelligible. The claim reads:
“(1) In a pattern-chain for lappet-looms, the combination of the…
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