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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

NATIONAL SHEET-METAL ROOFING CO. v. SMEETON.
    (Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
    February 11, 1893.)
    No. 41.
    Patents nor Inventions—Novelty—Metal Roofing Plates.
    The second claim of letters patent No. 256,083, issued April, 4, 1882, to John Walter, for “a sheet-metal roofing plate having one of its lateral edges formed with two parallel corrugations to form a gutter, and the other lateral edge formed with a broad corrugation, adapted to mate a seam with corrugations and the cap for-the gutter of a corresponding plate,” is void for want of novelty,- since gutters in rigid roofing plates were previously known. 47 Fed. Rep. 307, affirmed.
    Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois.
    In Equity. Suit by the National Sheet-Metal Roofing Company against Henry Smeeton to restrain the alleged infringement of a patent. The bill was dismissed at the hearing. Complainant appeals.
    Affirmed.
    Hill & Dixon, for appellant.
    Banning, Banning & Payson, for appellee.
    Before GRESHAM and WOODS, Circuit Judges, and BUNN, District Judge.
   PER CURIAM.

The decree appealed from is affirmed upon the grounds stated in the opinion of the court below, reported in 47 Fed. Rep. 307.