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 428 FEDERAL EBPO^RTBB, �figures denoting the hours were printed, withîn the rim of the back, instead of having the figures painted upon the painted surface of the plate j and, in order to keep the paper dial in place, united it to the back by a metallic rim, one edge of which covered the edge of the dial, and the otber edge was iumed over the outside edge of the back. The shape of the rim was determined by the shape of the back which might be desirable in any particular, style of clock, or as a matter of ornament. Flanges were not used, because they made a seat for attaching the dial to the case, but were used to conform to the old style of back, when that style, which had an old function of its own, was used. Given the two facts that a clock dial, with printed paper dial, a metallic back, and a metallic rim uniting the back and the paper dial, was old ; and that a metallic back, with a lateral outside flange, through which screws were inserted to fasten the dial to the clock case, was commonly in use ; was it any material part of the inven- tion to make the rimto correspond generally with the old pat- tern of the Back ? I am of opinion that it was not ; but that the shape of the rim was a matter merely of mechanical c&nveni- ence. The inside lateral flange bas the same offices which are performed by any edge of the rim, and the form is in the one which would be naturally adopted upon a sunken dial plate. The bill should be diemissed. ���Hamilton V. KiNGSBtTBT and another. �{CHrcuit Court, N. D. New York. , 1880.) �1. Patent— AssiQNM EUT — Notice. — Held, under the circumstances of thia �case, that there was enough in the terms " right, title, and interest," in the assignment of a patent, to put any purchaser from the assign- ors, immediate or subsequent, on inquiry, and to charge him with notice of what such inquiry, if made of the grantor of the assignors, would have disclosed. �2. Same— Notice — Estoppei.. — Held, furfher, that such grantor was not �bound by any suppression of the truth by the said assignors, or any failure upon their part to disclose the exact condition of their title, so long as they assumed to convey only their " right, title, and interest." ����