In re Coffield

270 F. 695, 50 App. D.C. 259, 1921 U.S. App. LEXIS 2452
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit·Decided February 7, 1921·No. No. 1392·Published·Cited by 5 cases

Opinion

VAN ORSDED, Associate Justice.

[1] Applicant, Coffield, appeals from the decision of the Commissioner of Patents, rejecting the following claims for 'improvements in clothes wringers:

“1. In the clothes wringer, the combination with the wringer rolls, of a drain board and clothes guide rigidly mounted in the wringer frame below said rolls and extended a substantial distance on each side of the wringer frame to form a clothes guide, and a reversible water shutter pivotally mounted between said drainboard and clothes guide and said rolls to direct the water to one side of the said drain board and clothes guide while the clothes are guided from the wringér on the other side to a receiving receptacle.
“2. In a clothes wringer, the combination with the wringer rolls, of a double inclined she,d rigidly mounted in the wringer frame and extended a substantial distance on each side thereof to form a combined drain- board and clothes guide upon one part of which the clothes passing through the wringer rolls are‘delivered to a receptacle and upon the other part of which the water wrung from the clothes is directed elsewhere.”

The device is described by the Commissioner as follows:

“The device shown is' a clothes wringer having a combined drain board and clothes guide rigidly connected to the frame of the wringer and extending therefrom at a considerable distance on each side, and a pivoted water shutter; the latter being so arranged with reference to the drain board and the wringer rolls that the water wrung from the clothes by the latter can be drained in either direction.”
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