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154 FEDERAL REPORTER. �Cote's patent if MofStt's machine of 1872 will do evei^thing whicb bis witnesses say it will do. �Two machines for working upon thin strips or plates of sheet metal are introduced as anticipating the Cote invention, — one made by the defendant in 1867, and one patented by Pearce in 1873. These machines seized the metal between two rollers and carried it round a guide or "former," whieh gave it the required curve. I do not find it proved that such a guide or former would give a perma- nent curve to leather or leather board, nor that the single roughened toller of Cote is the equivalent, in such a machine, of the two rollers used in the old machines. �The infringement charged against the defendant is in the construc- tiou and use of machines substantially like thosedescribed in his patent of 1876. That patent describes several improvements upon' all old machines, but they seem to be additions to the Cote machine rather than total variations from it. The machines complained of have the single roughened former and the stationary mold or die of the patent in suit, and seem to me to operat e in the same way, and ta infringe the patent. �Decree for the complainants. ���GsiFFiTHS and another v. Holmes, Booth & Hatdbnb. �[Circuit Court, D. Oonnectieut. June 27, 1881.) 1. Re-issue No. 5,067— Suspension Ring fob Business Cahds— Noveltt— Va- �I/IDITY. �Re-issued letters patent No. 5,067, granted H. B. Grifflths, September 24, 1872, for improved suspension rings for tjusiness cards, held, invalid for want of novelty. �Complainant's device, consisting of a ring of thin sheet metal having a shank or bottom piece provided with sharp spurs, which are pushed thi'ough the card and turned down on the opposite side, held, antievpated by the Twitchell umbrella fastener, being a ring of sheet metal with spurs, which are pushed through the India-rubber band -which serves to keep a folded umbrella in place, the ring attaching the end of the band to a button or hook. �In Equity. �John Van Santvoord, for plaintiffs. �Geo. E, Terry and J. J. Coomhs, for defendant. �Shipman, D. j. This is a bill in equity to restrain the defendant from the infringment of re-issued letters patent of September 24, 1872, to Josephine Cary and Clementine Griffiths, assignees of Harry S. Qriffiths, for an improved suspension ring for business cards, so that ��� �