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 742 rEPEKAL BEPOKTEfi. �the different parts of the Gill machine, are deseribed either in Burr v. Duryea, 1 Wall. 531, or in GUI v. Wells, 22 Wall. 1. �The manufacture of hat bodies by the deposition of fur thrown from a picker upon an exhausted revolving cone was old at the date of the Wells invention. It is said in Burr v. Duryea that — �" ihe aim and object of botli Wells and Boyden was to construct an aiitomatic machine which would distribute the fur on the cones so that the bat might be thicker in certain portions than on others. This was the defect of former machines, which each proposed to remedy. * * * The great and peculiar characteristic of the Wells invention is a tunnel or chamber constructed as deseribed. Instead of the picker, he used a rotating brush to distribute the fur from the feed-aprons, and tbrow it forward into the chamber which con- ducted it to the cones. The hinged hood and flap were devices to distribute the material in unequal quantities, to accomplish the object of making the bat thicker in one part than another." �The chamber or tunnel is, as is said by the patentee in his original patent, "gradually changed in form towards the outlei;, where it assumes a shape nearly corresponding to a vertiole section passing through the axis of the cone, but narrower, for the purpose of con- centrating and directing the fur thrown by the brush onto the cone. " The cone is in front of the delivery aperture of the chamber. �The fifth and sixth claims of reissue No. 2,942 are as follows : �"(5) The combination of the feed-apron, on which the fur flbers can be placed in separate batches, each in quantity sufflcient to make one hat bod/; the rotating brush or picker, substantially as deseribed; the rotating previous cone, provided with an exhausting mechanism; and the device for guiding the fur flbers, substantially as deseribed; the combination having the mode of operation specifled, and for the purpose set forth. (6) In combination with a previous cone, provided with an exhausting mechanism, substantially as deseribed, the eovering cloth wet with hot water, substantially as and for the purpose specifled." �The fifth claim was for the combination of the feed-apron, rotating brush or picker, rotating previous cone, provided with an exhausting mechanism, and the trunk or tunnel with its hinged hood and flap, made substantially as deseribed. It implies that the sides of the trunk are to be united at their edges, and that the trunk is a unit and not a collection of separate devices; but the mere fact that the sides were taken apart would not defeat the charge of infringement. �The engraving on page 11 of 22 Wall, shows the Gill machine, except that the deflectors which it is said regulate the deposit of fur upon the band of the hat are not shown. These deflectors consist of blocks of wood fastened to the interior wall of the Grill case near the bottom, tho ��� �