Case Name: CARY MFG. CO. v. PATTERSON et al.
Court: United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1901-07-17
Citations: 110 F. 750
Docket Number: 
Parties: CARY MFG. CO. v. PATTERSON et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 110
Pages: 750–750

Head Matter:
CARY MFG. CO. v. PATTERSON et al.
(Circuit Court, S. D. New York.
July 17, 1901.)
Patek ts — Inert ngement.
The Cary patent, No. 403,247, claim 2, for a reel for metal box straps, held infringed on a motion for a preliminary injunction, under the construction placed thereon in a prior decision.
In Equity. Suit for infringement of patent.
On motion for preliminary injunction.
A. G. N. Vermilya, for complainant.
Kenneson, Crain, Emley & Rubino, for defendants.

Opinion:
THOMAS, District Judge.
. The complainant moves, pending final hearing, for an order enjoining the defendants from an alleged infringement of letters patent No. 403,247, construed and sustained by this court in Manufacturing Co. v. De Haven (C. C.) 88 Fed. 698. In that case the court said: "Nowhere in the prior art, however, is there found the device for 'braking/ whereby the arms are tightened upon the coil or loosened, if required." In the case at bar the defendants' device has every element of the complainant's patent, save that the arms are united at the outer ends by a rivet, and thereby pressed against the coil, and at the extremity a hole is made, through which a nail may be driven to suspend the reel, whereby also the tension of the arms upon the coil may be increased. In the adjudicated case the invention was declared to be extremely narrow, but it was found to exist. ' In view of such decision, it must, be concluded that the defendants' arrangement is'an ¡infringement. .