Page:Federal Reporter, 1st Series, Volume 7.djvu/738

 726 FBDEBAL BEPOBTEB. �above the side bars; that is, they are not constructed and applied so as to hold the end bar in a position where jt is free from contact with the side bars. As before stated, the end bars rest direotly upon the side bars. The outer face of the end of each end bar is covered bya piece of metal which is fastened to it by screws and projects slightly over the side. bar where the two bars are brought in contact. The only purpose of this piece of metal, so far as I can see, is to give to the outside corners greater finish. The end rails are double, as in the complainant's device ; and, between the two pieces which together make the end rail, the ends of the wire fabric are clamped and held. �Now, it is said by the counsel of complainant, in their brief, that "Pamham's invention consisted of the special way in which he attached this woven-wire fabric to the frame, whereby he produced new resulte that had never been attained in a bed bottom before ; and that special way con- sisted in attaching the fabric to the end of the frame so that the ooils extended from end tb end of the frame of the kind shown, leaving the coils entirely free, thereby having the full elastiflity and spring of the coiled wires that compose the fabric." And it is contended that the gist of the invention consists in an end atta>chment of the fabric, leaving it nnat- tached to the side rails, so that the strain on the fabric is Jengthwise of the ooils of wire, thereby utilizing the elasticity and recoil of the coiled springs ; that if this resuit is accom- plisbed by resting the end bars directly on the side bars, and without elevating the end bars above the side bars so that they do not come in contact, and also without making the end bars inclined, the first olaim of the complainants' patent is infringed. It seems to be the view of counsel that as the third claim is a claim on the special construction of the end bars alone, and as the fourth claim is a claim for the stand- ards arrangea as therein described, it was not the intention of the inventor to limit the construction of his first claim to the use of inclined end bars, or of any particulai* form of standards or corner irons.- In deternlining what was the ��� �