Mallon v. William C. Gregg & Co.

Citations

• 126 F. 377
• 1903 U.S. App. LEXIS 5170

Syllabus

<p>1. Patents — Validity and Infuingement — Cane Unloading Machine.</p> <p>The Mallon patent, No. 583,408, for automatic mechanism for unloading and feeding sugar cane, cannot be considered as covering more than the rake used to move the cane from the car to the conveyor and the mechanism for operating the same, the other elements of the combination being old in the art; and as to such feature it is void for lack of patentable invention, the rake shown being merely an adaption of those previously used for analogous purposes, notably that of the Howard patent for a machine for moving coal in the hold of a vessel to a conveyor, and that of the Lockhart patent for mechanism for moving grain from wagons to a conveyor, which carries it to a threshing machine. The patent also held not infringed, if valid, by the machine of the Gregg patent, No. 670,176.</p>