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 HOB V. OOIIBESLL. 601 �act simultaneouBly. If «those elementary parts are so ar- rangea that the successive action of each contributes to pro- duce some one practical resuit, which resuit, when attained, is the product of the simultaneous or successive action of ail the elementary parts, viewed as an entire whole, a valid claim for thus combining these elementary parts can be made." The resuit which was attained was the automatic delivery of a sheet, automatically printed upon its broadside v?ith heavy color, without smutting, face side uppermost. This resuit was the product of the successive action of ail the elementary parts. �It is not denied that ail the elements were old. Delivery mechanism, consisting of tapes combined with flyers, had been used in presses having printing cylinders with tapes, im- pression cylinders without tapes, and receiving cylinders with tapes had been combined with sheet flyers without tapes, but the combination of ail the elements in one existing machine, was new. It is substantially admitted that this combination had not been actually made or deaoribed in any machine, although it is claimed that the combination was so far sug- gested in antecedent patents that the flyer could have been added by any skilled press builder as a matter of course. �Prior to the date of the invention sheet flyers were a common adjunct of a press. They were made so as to be detached from presses, and to be put on or taken off at pleasure. Tape and sheet flyer deliveries had been combined, and, therefore, when Dutartre, in his French patent of January 11, 1853, showed an impression cylinder without tapes, a receiving cylinder with grippers and tapes, and a tape delivery, it is said that any skilled builder could have mechanically added a sheet flyer to the tapes. �It is further said that when the Reynolds American pat- ent of Pebruary 27, 1863, containod the same combination, and, after showing how the paper was delivered to the tapes, added, it is "piled by hand or by an ordinary fly," it was the part of ordinary mechanical labor to add the fly to the tapes. It is to be observed that Eeynolds did not suggest the com- bination of fly and tapes, The same point is put by the ��� �