Prior to the invention to which patent No. 530,749 relates, the devices which were generally used, when any mechanical means were employed, to shape cigars, were designed, to be opened and closed-longitudinally. This construction was objectionable because the joints between the two parts of the mold formed a rib or fin upon the opposite sides of the “binder.” To overcome this objection the patentee provided that his mold should be joined transversely. Transverse joining, however, was not new, and this was expressly conceded in'the specification, where it is said:
“I am aware that transversely divided cigar molds have before been proposed, and I therefore do not claim broadly a cigar mold composed of two tubular parts with transverse joint.”
Neither, it may be added, was it new to effect a transverse attachment by means of a socket-like connection. Such a connection was shown, for instance, in the patent granted to Edward A. Metz on September 5, 1871. Wha,t Ogden did invent and claim, so far as concerns the present case, is a cigar shaper having not simply a socket joint, but one which was of peculiar and novel structure, in that it consists of “a projecting flange serving to guide the other part into place and to retain the same hy friction thereupon.” In our opinion, the patent was rightly issued for this specific construe