American Soda-Fountain Co. v. Green
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania
This was a suit in equity by the American Soda-Fountain Company against Green and others for alleged infringement of a patent for improvements in soda-water apparatus. The case was heretofore heard on exceptions to defendant’s answer. 69 Fed. 333.
1Opinion of the Court
ACHESON, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, suing as the assignee of letters patent No. 414,272, granted November 5, 1889, to Theodore I. Witting, for improvements in dispensing apparatus for soda water, etc., charges the. defendants with the infringement of the second claim of the patent. The construction, combination of parts, and method of operation of the apparatus are succinctly and correctly stated in the following extract from the brief of plaintiff’s counsel:
The Witting structure consists of a case, generally similar to those In common use, in which is contained an ice chamber, and…
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