Zane v. Soffe
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. Bill in equity, setting forth an infringement of a patent for self-closing cocks or faucets, and praying for a perpetual injunction, for an account for the payment of damages, and for a temporary injunction.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. Bill in equity, setting forth an infringement of a patent for self-closing cocks or faucets, and praying for a perpetual injunction, for an account for the payment of damages, and for a temporary injunction. Answer, denying the infringement and averring in substance that for ten or fifteen years prior to plaintiff’s patent, a mechanism similar to that described in it had been in public use in New York and Brooklyn for purposes similar to those set forth in it. Decree below for defendant, from which…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. J ustice Bradley
delivered the opinion of the court.
This writ was brought by Zane and Koach, as assignees of one Nathaniel Jenkins, against the defendant, Soffe, for infringing (as charged) certain letters patent granted to said Jenkins, June 22d, 1865, for an improvement in self-acting cocks or faucets.
The general features of the invention patented, so far as material to be considered, may be described' as folloivs : The valve is situated in a chamber below the valve-seat, where the water is introduced by the induction-pipe and is kept in place 'against the valve-seat by a spiral spring…
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