The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-02-09

| 'A"S w" tH Pubfit use VI UH safe III
this cGJAtry, and which have no.
been patented on any application
filed III any country foreign to Tie
| United states by your said orator.
his legal Representatives or assigns,
more than twelve months prior to
the date Of his application for
patent hereinafter set forth, and
| which have not been abandoned to
! the public.
That your orator. N. E. Layne, be-
ing. as aforesaid, the true, original
and first inventor of said improve
ments and being q citizen Of the
united States made application to the
commissioner of Patents Of the Uni
ted States in legal form for letters
patent on said improvements, and
that after due proceedings had, the
said Commissioner Of Patents, issued
to your orator, NJ. E. Layne, in due
form patent for said invention
numbered 900440 and dated Deem
Der LIST, 1908, the same being de-
llVered to your orator, NJ. Z. Layne,
under seal Of the patent office OF the
United States signed by the Com
missioner as by law directed, and
that said patent granted and secured
to your orator and his assigns for
the term of seventeen years from and
after said date of the patent the full!
and exclusive right to make, use and
sell to others, to be used, the said
invention and improvements set forth
in said patent, a copy Of which said
letters patent is attached hereto, and
of which your orator stands ready
TO produce the original or certified
copy thereof, as your H0n0rs may
direct.
=, FOURTH
Your orator further shows unto
your HOnOrs that he has been at all
times since the issue of said letters
patent, to wit: Patent No. 9981S6
to your orator, VI. f. Layne, on July
IS, 1911; patent No. 95797S to your
orator, NJ. z. Layne, on May II,
1910; patent No. 910696 to your
orator, NJ. e. Layne, on January 26
1909; patent No. 905440, to your
orator, NJ. E. Layne, on December
/, 1908, the sole and exclusive owner
of said letters patent and that the
| title to said letters patent has at all
times since the issuance of said let
tiers patent, down to the present
time remained and been vested in
your orator, NJ. E Layne, and that
your said orator, NJ. e. Layne, by
ceratin agreement and contracts
entered into by him and Layne &
Bowler Company, corporation, one
| OF the compliments therein, con-
veyed to your orator, Layne & Bow
Ter Company the exclusive right to
| manufacture and sell in the United
States only, save and except the
States OF California and the terri
| tories Of New Mexico and Arizona.
all manufactured articles controlled
! or effected by the various letters
hereinabove set out and referred to
| thereby creating and constituting the
said Layne & Bowler Company the
exclusive licensee of your orator
II. E. Layne, and your orator, NJ. e
| Layne, ayers that ever since the issue
of said letters patent to him he has
been the owner Of the inventions de-
scrbed and claimed therein and OF
all rights and privileges granted or
secured or intended to be granted
and secured thereby, and of all
claims and demands for damages
and profits on account of the in
fringement of said letters patent ex-
cept such rights, privileges, claims
and demands as have been acquired
by your orator, Layne and Bowler
Company, the licensee Of the said NJ
E. Layne, all of which said rights
and claims are, and have been grant
ed commercial value to both Of your
orators.
FIFTH.
That your orator, NJ. E. Layne,
since becoming the owner Of said
| patents, as aforesaid, and your ora
| tor, Layne & Bowler Company, since
| becoming the licensee Of said NJ. E.
| Layne, as aforesaid, have expended
! large sums of money and have been
10 great trouble with and about said
invention for the purpose of carry
ing on the business Of manufacturing
and selling well mechanisms contain
ing and embodying said inventions
and in making said inventions profit
able to your orators and to the pub
lie; that well mechanisms have been
made and sold in great numbers by
your orators to the public and that
the public has generally enjoyed and
acquiesced in the aforesaid rights Of
your orators, and your creators be-
lieVe that the public will continue
to so recognize their rights, but for
the infringements hereinafter com,
planned Of and that your orators will
realize and receive large gains and
profits therefrom if the said in.
fringers of the defendants was pre-.
vented.
SIXTH.
That the said defendants:
DR.. L. G. Lewis, Welsh, La: L
| H. Cornwe2l, Welsh La; John
Deaner, Roanoke, La; George VOL
verton, Elton, La; Thomas Brothers
De Walls Bluff, Ark; Webb & Son