Lamson Consol. Stoke Service Co. v. Hillman

Citations

• 123 F. 416
• 59 C.C.A. 510
• 1903 U.S. App. LEXIS 4016

Syllabus

<p>Í. Patents—Infringement—Store-Service Apparatus.</p> <p>The McCarty patent No. 465,967, for a store-service apparatus for carrying cash and packages, consisting of a combination of (1) an elevated way extending from the cashier’s station to a single salesman’s station, (2) a car mounted to travel on the way, (3) a receptacle detach-ably suspended from the car, (4) a catch device for locking the receptacle to the frame of the ear, and (5) a separate elevator of which neither the way, car, nor receptacle forms a part, situated stationarily at the end of the way in a position to receive the receptacle, and constructed to raise and lower it to and from the car, shows a combination of elements some of which had been used in prior devices, but so adapted to cooperate as to disclose patentable invention, and which stands at the head of a class, although in a well-developed art, and is entitled to a liberal range of equivalency. So construed, claim 1 is infringed by the apparatus of the Gipe patents, Nos. 623,899 and 645,505.</p>