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T. B. Wood's Sons Co. v. Valley Iron Works

191 F. 196, 1911 U.S. App. LEXIS 5520
CourtU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Middle Pennsylvania
DecidedOctober 19, 1911
DocketNo. 52
StatusPublished
Cited by5 cases

This text of 191 F. 196 (T. B. Wood's Sons Co. v. Valley Iron Works) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Middle Pennsylvania primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

Bluebook
T. B. Wood's Sons Co. v. Valley Iron Works, 191 F. 196, 1911 U.S. App. LEXIS 5520 (circtmdpa 1911).

Opinion

WITMER, District Judge.

This is a suit in equity, in the ordinary form, for an injunction, andl for an account of profits and damages for infringement of letters patent, No. 790,609, granted May 30, 1905, to Charles O. Wood, and assigned to complainant, for improvement in shaft hangers, and for an injunction to restrain the defendant írom simulating the distinctive appearance and design of complainant’s shaft hanger, and an accounting for profits and damages received from or suffered because of such simulation of appearance and design. The invention of the patent in suit relates to shaft hangers, or brackets, adapted! to be hung from the rafters of a machine shop or factory, to form bearings to support a shaft at intervals. It is highly desirable to be able to bring all the bearings, formed by a row of shaft hangers, into perfect alignment, so that.the shaft held by them shall not be bent in any manner, and hence shall be free to turn with the least possible friction. Any lack of alignment of shaft hangers would cause heating of the bearings and shaft, and waste of power, if not actual stoppage of the machinery. The rafters are unavoidably sufficiently irregular to throw the most perfect shaft hangers out of line. Shaft hangers are, therefore, all made with a bearing-box, more or less adjustable on the frame of the shaft hanger, so that after the frame has been fastened to the rafters, as nearly in accurate position as possible,' [197]*197the bearing-box may be adjusted on the frame to bring the bearing into more accurate alignment than is possible or convenient in securing the shaft hanger, as a whole, to the rafters. It is said that the object of the invention of the patent in suit is to provide a shaft hanger of few parts, comparatively, and yet capable of every possible adjustment of the bearing-box relative to the frame of the shaft hanger which could be obtained by the utmost complication of parts, yet simple and cheap. The specifications clearly and fully describe the invention, as it also appears in the accompanying drawing, in language and form, as follows:

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191 F. 196, 1911 U.S. App. LEXIS 5520, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/t-b-woods-sons-co-v-valley-iron-works-circtmdpa-1911.