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 pendent of the motion of any other pin in the set^ and Tphen a pawl rocks a rocking arm the latjbei slides ^ ratchet-bar, and the ratchet-ta?:, throug^ a toothe^^ -rrheel, tumsa cpank-pii;, and tMS'pic;, through the intervention of,« coflnecting rod, shifts �i. The original patent claimc^ the meeHanism generally. The re^ispye has nine claims, of \vhi9h theurBt,,thini andeighth are saidto b^infringed bjc, the defendants, i. �, "1. sThe cpr^hiBation of a leyef, one pii^ of which is con- n^cted to shujttle-box^s, withits actuatii^ig crank'pin and Con- necting rod, 3,nd.f^nother' lever pivpted therecn, aofi the ac- tuaiting (}rank-pin amd jconnecting rod thereqf, wherebj four shuttle-boxes piay beactuated ; thecombinatioj)being suhstan- tiajly. Bi^h as desicribed." �. TJie se . ;: ;, ;. .;.. .jj j ^ - �,; The i^igbth is |or the jsonibin.ation where^the lever bas a 8ljiJftingfolpriqra,w:hich has aJLreftdy been describcid as one form of CQmppund lever, i , ,1 r * r- �, TbejMitei^tep says, speaking of oompoupd Jev^rg : "Such levers are not new as applied to shuttle-b(?x: laechanism, and njay be 8^iec|dcsqribed, in Eiigliifb and Aca^^an letters patent prier to the d^tepf; i:py;invention. My inventipn is therefor^ li^i|;ed4iQ eerlftin ippchani^al devicej in combwation with suci^ Eulevfripr.ljej^s,". ., ^, . ., ,■/ .^ ... ^:^,,. . . _ , , In bi^oyecj^ng cage the plaintif put in eyidenceliie Englisb p^tgfifr pf Whitesiiiith & Steven, published i^ 1860, which descrihep i ftn4iA'=':^*'^**®^ ^^ much detail modep of operating ghuttle,-j|)pxes,by means of levera co-operatic^g,,-w,ithpawl8, and wljpels j i^3,4FWft.9^'^i lever, vrith; a sbifting fulc;ri^m,i a.n^,^de- scribes, ^^igptly but; ^int^lligijbly, tbft nSi^, of .pp^pound levers icjj;jiis,ci5pne(3l(ion, These.descjiptioiis and clraTTAQ^gs show th.e levers to be conneeted with the cirank-pins of the actuating ��� �