Jones v. Cyphers
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of New York. This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court, Western District of New York, on pleadings and proofs, dismissing a bill brought for alleged infringement of United States letters patent No. 586,088, issued to Walter P. Jones July 6, 1897, for improvements in incubators and brooders.
1Opinion of the Court
UACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
The patent contains 41 claims, of which Nos. 1, 2, 3, 9, and 14 only are involved. Briefly stated, the invention disclosed and covered by these claims, as described by complainant’s expert, consists of an incubator or brooder in which there are incorporated or assembled a closed chamber having a fresh-air inlet, means for heating the chamber, which includes a heating device, and an exit or passage connecting the chamber with the heating device ; the combination or organization of the elements recited being such as to produce or cause a positive circulation of air within…
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