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 §1^ I^DSBAIi BKFOBTEB. �Bate BEFBiGEBatiNG Co. V. ToFFEY and others. �(Oi/rcuit OovH, V. New Jersey. January 19, 1881.) 1. Rb-Ibsub No. 7i643^lMPRoVEMENTS m Am CooiiHia and Dibtbibut- �ING ApPAEATUB— NOVELTY.:•/ �Re-issued letter? patent No. 7,643, for " improvements in air cool- ing and distributiijg apparatus," claimed, irUer alia: " In an air cooler, or apparatus for cooiing carcasses, etc., the combination of a fan-blower, or its equivalent, an ice-chest, or equivalent, and one or more pipes or conduits, vrhich equally distribute the air within the place or apartment to be cooled, substantially as and for the purpose set forth." Hdd, from a consideration of the state of the art at the 1 time of the invention, and from the specifications and daims of the �; patent itself, that its preoiae design was to cool apartments; that ther same was fairly applicable t^.enclosures constructed for the tranipor- tation of meat, and that a new and useful resuit was thereby reached. �^•■■— [Ed. �In Equity. �Dickerson e DicJcerson, for complainant. �George Gifford, for defendants. �Nixon, D. J. The copiplainant corporation files its bill of complaint against the defendants for infringing certain re- issued ietters patent No. 7,643, dated April 24, 1877, for "improvements in air-couling and distributing apparatus." The original Ietters patent, numbered 44,731, and dated Oc- tober, 1864, were granted to one Moses J. Kelley, for an "improved atmosphere cooler." One of the defences set up in the answer was that the re-issue was not for the same invention. It was not urged at the hearing, and, on com- parison of the two Ietters patent, I find no valid grounds for Buch a defence. �The subject-matter of the oontroversy has reference to one of the most valuable inventions of modern times; to-wit, the method of transmitting slaughtered animais for long dis- tances over oceans and continents, and preserving, at the same time, the sweetness and purity of the meat as an arti- cle of human food. Whilst a beneficent Providence has fur- nished to the world an abundant supply of everything need- ful for the material wants of ail His creatures, He has left it ��� �