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BUTBO V, MOLIi. 909 �SuTEo and another ». Moll. �{Circuit Court, 8. D. New Yffrk. February 18, 1881.) �1. liBTTEiis Patent— Impkovbment m Coiœs fob Whapping Thkhad. �Keissued letters patent No. 6,751, granted November 16, 1875, to Hugo Butro, for an improvement in cords for wrapping thread, are not infringed by tho device of Aug'xst Moll. �2. SaMB — BXTBKT OF THE PATENT. �In view of arrangements already In «se. the relsune mnst he llmited to cover. ing sections strictly attached and requiriug cuttmg to delacii Uiem. �J. P. Fitch, for plaintiff. �S. Greenhaum, for defendant. �Blatchford, g. J. This suit is brought on reissned letters pateni; No. 6,751, granted to Hugo Sutro, November 16, 1875, for an "im- provement in cords for wrapping thread," the original patent. No. 130,672, having been granted to faim August 20, 1872, and reiosued to him, as No. 5,725, January 6, 1874. The following is the specifi- cation of reissue No. 6,761, including what is outside of brackets and what is inside of brackets, and omitting what is in italics: �" This invention relates to a new form for holding [and a new method of putting up] braided or other threads, and [it] consista in [pasteboard. card,or other equivalent material, notchedj notohing a eard at the ends [so as} to pro- duce visible and accurate subdivisions of the skeins wound thereonj [and also in perforating or equivalently weakening or cutting such card length- wise to allow convenient separation of any one or more of the sections of card with the thread or skein upon it.] This is for the purpose of keeping the skeins so fully separated that they cannot become entangled, and that they can — each skein containing a certain length of thread — be [separated] eut apart with their sections of card, [so as] to fumish a desired measure of thread or braid. A, in the drawing, represents the card [or form] around which the braided or plain thread, cord, or tape is wound length wise. The ends of this card are notched, as at a a, in figure 1, there being as many notches as there are to be skeins or separate subdivisions wound about the card. In this manner the eard is subdivlded into a series of narrow sections, 6 b, [each] all containing [a certain] equai [quantity] quantitiesoi the fabric, the projecting prongs, d d, between the recesses, a, keeping the several skeins properly separated. The card may be perforated [or otherwise equivalently weakened or eut] length wise [along aline or Unes, indicated by the broken line or Unes in figure 1 of the drawings, so as] to allow convenient [separation] detaehment of any one or more of the [skeins with their sections of card, 6,] sections, h, vrith the cord on it, so that, in retail trade, the skeins can be dis- posed of separately without requiring their unwinding and special measure- ment. The [fabric is] skeins on the card may he wouud [in skeins of the desired length] upon [each of] the sections, 6, [of the card, as described, and all or a part of the skeins remain connected together] so as to constitute [an ��� �