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456 FEDERAL REPORTER, �some other advantages beyond the effect or purpose accom- plished by the patentee, it will still be an infringement, as respects what is covered by the patent, although the further advantage may be a patentable subject as an improvement upon the former invention." �The court, upon the best consideration it can give to this subject, has come to the conclusion that the defendant in this cause has used, in the elevation and suspension of the stack of trays in this drier, mechanical appliances and contrivances which, while they differ somewhat in form from those used by the complainant, are mechanical substitutes and equivalents for the same. �And in the use of the same for the accomplishment of the same resulta as those produced by the complainant's inven- tion, the defendant has infringed upon the exclusive rights secured to the coniplainant by his patent No. 190,368. �And the court shall so adjudge, order, and decree. ���CoFFiN V. The Brio Akbab. �(District Court, E. D, New York. December 29, 1880.) �Salvage— Yellow Fbvek— Amount of Awakd. �The crew of the brig Akbar, bound from Havana for New York with a cargo of sugar, when five days eut, were, with the exception of the mate, who was ailing, and one seaman, taken down with yellow fever. Hdd, where the brig waa boarded by the master and mate of the schooner Munson, then short the chief mate and one seaman, in answer to a signal of distress, and command was assmncd by the mate, who brought her safe to New York, and where neither the master nor the mate nor the Munson sustalned any injury tlierefrom, that the Akbar and cargo should pay the sum of $3,600 for the serv- ices rendered. �Bame— Same— Distribution of Award. �Held, further, that of this sum $2,500 should be awarded to the mate ; $500 to the owners of the Munson ; $350 to the master ; and the remaining $250 should be divided among the crew — certain seamen who went in the beat to the Akbar with the master and mate reoeiv- ing a double sharc. ����