127 F. 158 | U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York | 1904
This suit in equity involves the validity of United States letters patent No. 619,567, issued to complainant as assignee of William Hamilton, inventor, February 14, 1899. The alleged invention is a sliding frame or face plate for a burial casket, having a transparent nonbrittle gauze fabric stretched over a frame which slides into place at the upper or face end of the casket. The object of the invention is stated to be to do away with the difficulties arising from the use of glass plates or panels commonly used in burial caskets. The specification further states that glass panels are liable to become broken in course of transportation of the burial casket, and to overcome such inconvenience the casket is provided with a frame over which is stretched a strip of a transparent fabric — such,
It follows from the foregoing that the bill must be dismissed, with costs.