The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-09-24
CREAM SEPARATOR PATENTS.
Important Cecrees and Injunctions in
Centri' ugal Cream Separator Infringe
ment Litigation 80 "Alpha" De
Laval Patents Sustained

ment Litigation -" Alpha" De
Laval Patents Sustained.
There have recently been several i'm
portrait dt CIsiCns IN b . S Courts
regarding centrifugal cream separator
patent rights, which are deserving OF
the attention of those interested IN any
way in these machines.
Or JnLe 18th Judge Coke, sitting in
the y S Circuit Court for the North
ern DIs,ric of New York, at Canaan
daigua. n. Y granted a OecreP, inGiu
sive Of a perpetual Injunction, sustain
ing the material CLAIMS Of the Won
B schtOIsheim patent, teGEer and C. m
me1 cially known a. the Alpha" DE
Laval patent, III the suit of the De
Laval S paratur C,mpany, of New
York, against SAMUEL HOtchkiss of
Delaware county. N. Y, VINO had been
making and selling e. cream separator
with an interior bowl device, thus held
Co infringe the alpha" patent as
C 1arged by tn D Laval Company.
Following tbs decision Judge rEaI
lace, sitting IN the U s Court at Syra
cuse, N. Y, on August goth, granted
an injunction against John HnuslOn,
OF HamdFn. Delaware county, N. Y,
an Owrer and user of n of the so
called HOGchkIss seDaraLora, which in
JuLcIlon restraints II custom from the
further USE Of such machine.
These decisions are of no little inter
esC 70 creamery men and dairymen, and
TOT that matter TO the public generally,
SINCE II Is M slntalned that the centri
Iugal cream separator, which has al,
ready revOlut10nlzed the existing con
ulclohs OIL the separation of cream from
4 mTIR 10 CnOr 70 h.
form for household use, that we may
perhaps grind" the cream for our
ctIee as we now do the coffee itself.
The centrifugal separator patents
nave long been IN litigation. The De
Laval Company was pr; c icelIy the
ploheer In the Introduction If these
machlnes, but of late years various
concerns previously making gravity
cream setting appliances have taken
up Che manufacture Of the centrifugal
machines as we'll The De Laval Com
pany has utterly resen, ed this trsspass
upon It's claimed rights. and infringe
menG proceedings under it's patents, IN
which IL claims to have invested and
expended nearly a million dollars. have
Oeen brought In several States.
IN It's later machines, the De Laval
company has practically abandoned
the older types OF separator construc-
lion and now uees what is termed the
AIpna" process, consisting of an in
terror device dividing the milk in the
reVolVl g S parator bowl It is this
new and improved alpha" patent
"hich q $. Courts now sustain
and hold other machines to infringe in
the use of bowl dividing appliances.
a SUBJECT thus becomes one of con
siderable Importance to q of sepa
rators, both those who may already be
using some possibly Infringing ma
chlne, and those contemplating the
purchase of a separator.
IL Is not definitely known how broad
the scope OF tie present decisions may
he as regards their immediate bearing
up the manufacture and use of as
serted infringing machines other than
the ones specifically sued upon in these
actions, but it will not be amiss for
buyers to be careful in this respect.
1t will be noted that In the decisions
rendered the user is held equally re