20 F. 196 | U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York | 1884
This suit rests upon reissued letters patent No. 9,772, dated June 21, 1881, the original of which was No. 177,020, dated May 2,1876, and granted to the orator for an improvement in traveling-bags. The improvement consisted in making the lock-plate long enough to support not only the lock itself and its fastenings, but also ring-loops for the handle attached to raised portions of the plate, and having creases under the ends of the plate for rings or other devices for'a carrying-strap, so that attaching the plate to the frame would attach all these parts to the bag. There were three claims in the original patent, — one for the lock-plate having secured to it the lock, fastening, and ring-loops; one for the lock-plate having the recesses
Let a decree bo entered accordingly, with costs.