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 BEAINABD V. PULSIFER. 349 �Beainaed V. PuLSiFER and others. �{Oircuit Court, D. Massachusetts. May 19, 1881.) �1. Patent — Compositobs' Copt Distributok — Infbingement. �Complainant's apparatus, consisting of a galley-stand with lettered apartments to hold the galk.Vs, and pins on the side of the stand to hold the copy, lettered to correspond with the respective apartments, Tidd, infringed by a device where the lettered pins were ranged along the wall of the composing room baclc of the galley-stand, having let- tered apartments corresponding to the respective pins. �In Equity. �Thomas W. Clark and Charles R. Brainard, for complain- ant. �Charles J. Brooks and James E. Maynadier, for defendants. �LowBLL, C. J. The plaintiff is the inventer and owner of an "improvement in compositors' copy distributors, " patented March 31, 1874, No. 149,092. The case bas been tried upon the patent, and a short stipulation as to the state of the art and the thing which the defendants use. In printing daily newspapers great speed and diligence are required; and the copy for a single "galley," which is the printer's unit of length in printing a book or a newspaper, is given out to several different compositors in small pieces, called "takes." Each compositor, of course, knows by some mark on the "copy," or sees by reading what is already set up, which galley is to receive his type when set up, so as to make sense and con- tinuity in the reading. The galleys are put upon a stand, or galley -bank, or holder, from which, when complete, the printer takes them to the press. The proof-reader corrects the proof when it is drawn from the galley ; consequently, he must have the copy properly sorted, as well as the type properly ar- ranged. �It is agreed that before the plaintiff 's invention all the com- positors of the whole newspaper put their copy, after they had set it up, into a drawer or upon a table, and the proof- reader, or, more usually, a young man called the sorter, was obliged to pick out and arrange the copy for the several galleys. ��� �