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 378 fSDEKAL KEPOBTEB. �6. Samb—Samb. �Eeld, further^ that the rnere use of guch infringing lock consti- tutes an inlringement, although it has only been used as an instant locker. �7. Patent No. 173,366 — Impeovement in Time Locks— Mechanical �Devicb. �Letters patent No. 173,366, for improvement in " time locks," by isolating the adjusting devices froin the winding devices, and by ex- cluding from the adjusting devices the person who winds the clocks, except when he is allowed the use of the key to the suppleinental clock by which the adjusting devices are secured, contained, inter alia, the follo^ing claim : "In combination with the case of a chronometric lock, having a lid or door for covering the devices which control the hours of locking or unlocking, one or more winding devices, whereby, the lock being attached to the safe door, the time mechanism can be wound from the exterior of the case while the safe door is open, but is inaccessible when said door is closed." Hdd that, so far as thia claim ■was concerned, the alleged invention consists in simply securing the door of a time lock with a key, and in providing such door with an aperture through which the clock could be wound, and that in view of the Rutherford clock, the watchman's time detector, and even the clocks and watehes in common use, the improvement did not involve invention, and could only be regarded as mechanical. �8. Re-Issue No. 7,947— Application of Time and Comuiitation Lock- �ing Mechanism to the Bolt-Wobk of a Safe Dook— Combination — Patentable Result. �Re-issued letters patent No. 7,947, for an improvement in a com- bined time lock, combination lock, and bolt-work for safe and vault doors, claimed, inter alia, " the combination with the bolt-work of a safe or vault door of a combination or key lock, controllable mechan- ically from the exterior of the said door, with the time lock, having a lock boit or obstruction for locking and unlocking, controllable from the interior of the door, both of said locks being arranged so as to rest against, or connect with, the bolt-work — the time lock being automatically unlocked by the operation of the time movement ; both of the said locks being independent of each other, and arranged to control the locking and unlocking of the bolt-work, so that said safe or vault door cannot be opened when locked until both of said locks have been unlocked, or have released their dogging action to enabla the door to be opened, substantially as described." Eeld, that this combination produced a new resuit, and was theref ore patentable. �9. Re-Ibbue — Abandoned Claim. — Leggett v. Avery, 101 U. S. 256. �HM, further, under the circumstances of this case, that this claim was not within the scope of the language employed in Leggett v. Avefry, 101 U. B. 256, in relation to the invalidity of a claim in a re-issue which had been abandoned, or rejected with the acquiescence of the patentee, upon the original application for letters patent. — [Ed. ��� �