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 140 FEDERAl EBPOBTEB. �parts of the machine next to the grass left uncut to their hindrance, nor to have ohtained a patent for that device. The use of such rollers is what the orator complains of, but the patent she owns does net appear to cover them, therefore the defendant does not appear to infringe her patent as it was grauted. Decree dismissing bill. ���CboweIjL p. NathanieIj E. Hablow. �Ceowell ». George Haelow. �(Oireuît Court, D. Massoehusett». January 17, 1S80.) �Ln'vestion — IMPEOVBD Phocess OF CuBiNo FisH. — An improvement In ihe process of curing flsh by the removal of the mucous membrane is patentable, when it was not formerly knowu that such membrane was injurious to the keeping quality of the fish. �These causes were tried together, it being agreed that the facts -were precisely alike in both. �John Atwood obtained a patent, No. 90,334, May 25, 1869, for an improved process of curing and putting up fish. Ile declared in his specification that the cause of the offensive odor of fish cured in the ordinary way was the mucous mem- brane between the skin and the flesh, which when dried and afterwards moistened became slimy and offensive. His new method was thus described: "When the fish is fresh, I take ont the principal bones and fins, the fish remaining whole or split in halves. When partially dried and cured with sait I remove the skin, and with it the entire mucous membrane, the cause of the offensive odor of sait fish. I then pack in tight wood boxes, of convenient size, for instance from ten to one hundred pound boxes." He claims: "The method or process for curing and putting ap fish substantially as de- scribed." It was explained that the method was particularly applicable to cod and liaJdock. ��� �