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 584 FEDERAL REPORTER, �In re Lissbuegeb. {Oirewit Court, 8. B. New Torh. April 11, 1881.) 1. In bb LissBURGiBR, 2 Fed. Bbp, 153, Affiembd. �In Bankruptoy. �John F. Dillon and M. H. Regenshurger, fof the review, R. D. Benedict, and J. F. Malcolm, opposed, Blatchfoed, g. J. I have carefully considered the ques- tions in this case, and am of opinion that the order made herein by the district court, bearing date April 3, 1880, and spoken of in the petition of review as having been made and entered on or about April 6, 1880, was a proper order, and that the prayer of said petition must be denied, with eosts. ���HAMMEESOHIiAG V. SOAMONI. {Oircuit Court. S. D. Nm York. April 16, 1881.) �1. Ke-Isbue No. 8,460— Patent No. 209,393— Impbovbments in Wax- �rsa Papeb — Motion for Preliminaey Injunction — iNFurNOB- �MBNT. �Re-issued letters patent No. 8,460, granted to Siegfried Hammer- schlag, October 22, 1878, and letters patent No. 209,393, granted to Siegfried Hammerschlag, October 29, 1878, for " improvements in waxing paper," to render it water-proof, held, infringed as to the flrst, second, third, and flfth claims of the former, and as to the flrst and second claima of the latter, upou a motion for preliminary injunc- tion. �2. Invention— La ws of Nature. �The arrangement of machinery is designed to secure the operation of law3 whose operation is certain to follow such arrangement of it, and those certain laws are the laws of nature ; and it is because those known laws are certain to follow such an arrangement that the arrangement is made. The arrangement is none the less an inven- tion because it brings into operation the laws of nature. �3. Pioneer Patent— Construction. �A patent being a pioneer and foundation patent, both as to process and machine, is not to be construed as confined to specifie details, if it fairly admits of the liberal construction to which such a patent is entitled. ��� �