Salvage Process Corp. v. Acme Tank Cleaning Process Corp.

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree for the plaintiff in a suit to enjoin the infringement of Claim 1 of Patent, No. 1,405,173, issued to Hervey J. Wheeler. The case has been already before us on appeal from an interlocutory injunction against infringing the same- claim, which we reversed. Salvage Process Co. v. Acme Tank Cleaning Process Corp., 2 Cir., 86 F.2d 725. We refer to the statement of facts in that opinion, and proceed at once to the issue of infringement, for the defendant now, as before, acknowledges the validity of the claim. Our first decision assumed that the…