Case Name: AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE SANDER CO. v. ECONOMY LOCOMOTIVE SANDER CO.
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1907-12-18
Citations: 162 F. 684
Docket Number: No. 26
Parties: AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE SANDER CO. v. ECONOMY LOCOMOTIVE SANDER CO.
Judges: Before DALLAS, GRAY, and BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 162
Pages: 684–685

Head Matter:
AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE SANDER CO. v. ECONOMY LOCOMOTIVE SANDER CO.
(Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
December 18, 1907.)
No. 26.
Patents — Patentable Novelty — Locomotive Track Sandeb.
The Leach patent, No. 656,553, for improvements in pneumatic track sanders for locomotives, discloses no new principle of operation, functional capacity, or inventive feature over the device of patent No. 433,686 to the same patentee, and is void for lack of novelty.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Delaware.
For opinion below, see 154 Fed. 83.
Francis T. Chambers, for appellant.
Hector T. Fenton, for appellee.
Before DALLAS, GRAY, and BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judges.
Rehearing denied.

Opinion:
BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.
In the court below a decree was entered' adjudging patent No. 656,553, issued to H. L. Leach, for a track sander for locomotives, invalid as not involving patentable novelty. From such decree the American Locomotive Sander Company, the owner of the patent, appealed to this court. We are of opinion the decree in the court below was right. The sander of this patent to Leach was of the same general type shown in his earlier patent No. 4:33,686. That patent we considered in a case between these same parties at No. 25 October term, 1907. 162 Fed. 683. It covered the generic device, and gave Leach protection for his inventive contribution. In the present patent he has taken the generic invention, duplicated it, and for mechanical — not functional — reasons fed the dupli cated sander from a single down-lake pipe. Such aggregation or multiplication of the old generic type disclosed no new principle of operation, functional capacity, or inventive feature. Nor is invention involved in giving a downward turn to the end of the horizontal discharge pipe, and thereby making a sand lock.
Finding no error in the decree, it is affirmed