Bradley v. Eccles
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York. This is an appeal from a decree (138 Fed. 916) for the complainant in a suit for the infringement of letters patent No. 485.856, granted November 8, 1892, to Christopher C. Bradley, for “thill coupling,” and error is assigned of the correctness of the finding of the validity of the patent by the court below.
1Per curiam
The patent, so far as it concerns the litigated claims, is for an improvement upon the thill coupling device of the. patent to Wm. H. Hannan, granted July 14, 1891, and reissued August 16, 1892, which consists in substituting a ball and socket joint in place of the straight bearing joint between the draft-eye and the thill-iron of that patent. The joint of the Hannan patent consisted of a cylindrical coupling-pin embraced by a corresponding recess in the draft-eye as the bearing surface; the coupling-pin having collars to prevent its longitudinal movement in the draft-eye. ' In place of this…
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