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

~" iN4 'i+' So PatCHttH OF utStFi6eu
not been in public use or on sale in
this country, and which have not
been patented on any application
nIed IN any country foreign to the
United States by your said orator,
his legal representative 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, NJ. L. Layne, be-
ing, as aforesaid, the true, original
and first inventor of said improve
ments and being citizen Of the
United States made appli2ot'cn to the
Commissioner Of Patents CT the Uni
ted States in legal form for letters
patent on said improvements, and
that after due proceedings had. the
said Commissioner Ct Patents, issued
to your orator, NJ. Z. Layne, in due
form a patent for said invention
numbered 905440 and dated Decem-
Der LIST, 1908, he s2me being de-
liVered to your orator, NJ. E. Layne.
under seal Of the patent office Of the
United States signed by the Com
missioner as by law directed, and
hat said patent granted and secured
70 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
n said patent, copy of which said
letters patent is attached hereto, and
OF which your orator stands ready
TO produce the original or a certified
copy thereof, as your Honors may
direct.
FOURTH
Your orator further shows unto
your H0n0rs that he has been at all
times since the issue of said letters
patent, to wit: Patent No. 9981S6
to your orator, NJ. e. Layne, on July
IS, 1911; patent No. 95797S to your
orator, NJ. f. Layne, on May II,
1910; patent No. 910696 to your
orator, NJ. z. 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, a 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,
NJ. 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-
scribed 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, M. 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
to great trouble with and about SAID
invention for the purpose of carry,
| ing on the business of manufacturing
and selling we'll 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 beer
made and sold in great numbers by
your orators to the public and tina
the public has generally enjoyed ant
acquiesced in the aforesaid rights o.
your orators, and your creators be
lieve that the public will continue
to so recognize their rights. but fol-
the infringements hereinafter com
planned of and that your orators will
realize and receive large gains ant
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. COrnwell, Welsh La; JohI
Deaner, Roanoke, La; George VOL
verton, Elton, La; Thomas Brothers
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