Case Name: AMERICAN PIN CO. v. SCHEUER et al.
Court: United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1893-01-14
Citations: 53 F. 810
Docket Number: 
Parties: AMERICAN PIN CO. v. SCHEUER et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 53
Pages: 810–810

Head Matter:
AMERICAN PIN CO. v. SCHEUER et al.
(Circuit Court, S. D. New York.
January 14, 1893.)
Patents for Inventions — Validity—Novelty.
Letters patent No. 300,744, issued June 17, 1884, to Elbert A. Whittelsey, for an improvement in a locking device for shawl straps, having endless bands wound upon a handle, disclosed patentable invention.
In Equity. Bill by tbe American Pin Company against Isaac Scheuer and others for infringment of a patent.
Decree for complainant.
Sherman H. Hubbard, for plaintiff.
Louis C. Raegener, for defendants.

Opinion:
WHEELER, District Judge.
This suit is brought upon patent Ho. 300,744, dated June 17, 1884, and granted to Elbert' A. Whittelsey, for an improvement in shawl straps of endless bands wound upon a handle, locking the handle to hold the straps by a slide'with an angular slot moving against and grasping an angular part of the spindle. The handles had been held by ratchets before, and similar slides had been used to hold spindles of locks before. The principal objection to the patent is want of invention in putting such a slide to this use. But the parts with which it is made to work here are quite different from those of a lock, and to contrive it into this place for this purpose was something more than merely putting it to a new ,use, and required more than the ordinary skill of a workman. The defendants' slide does the same thing in about the same way.
Let a decree be entered for the plaintiff.