General Electric Co. v. Steinberger
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. This cause comes here upon appeal from a decree of the District Court, Eastern District of New York. The suit was brought under section 4915, Rev. Stat. U. S. (U. S. Comp.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. This cause comes here upon appeal from a decree of the District Court, Eastern District of New York. The suit was brought under section 4915, Rev. Stat. U. S. (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3992), praying that a patent be issued to complainant for the device covered by claims 9, 10 and 11 of United States letters patent No. 904,370 for a disk strain-insulator, granted November 17, 1908, to defendant, Stein-berger. The District Court decreed that Hewlett was the first inventor and entitled to a patent. The…
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
The facts are very fully set forth in Judge Chatfield’s opinion, which may be referred to for any not here recited. A disk strain-insulator, as its name implies, is a disk of insulating material, mounted so that the line of its axis is substantially horizontal. To it from one side comes a current-carrying wire; a similar one leads from it on the other side. These two wires are insulated from each other by a mass of insulating material in the body of the disk; in service the current is carried around the insulator by a shunt wire. The current is powerful, the wires…
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