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 ,§1#. FBDI^Bili B^POBTBB,. �:< -: ■ :, :, ,■ , • . , ' : . ■ �ZiNN and others v. Weiss. (Otreuit Court, E. D. New York. March 17, 1881.) �1. Patent No. 47,135— Ke-Issubs No. 8,106 nm> 8,123— Pocket-Book �OiiASPS— Motion FOR Pbbliminart Injunction— Vaiiditt. �Upon a motion for a preliminary injunetion, letters patent No. 47,133, granted April 4, 1865, to Charles Beaver; re-issued letters patent No. 8,106, granted February 26, 1878, to Zinn and Measer ; and re-issued letters patent No. 8,123, granted March 12, 1878, to Zinn and Messer,^— all for improvements in pocket-book clasps, — ' hetd mlid. �2. Patent- GoiTBiNATioN — Machine — New Use- Infringement. �A. patent may secure a combination or machine without regard to the purposes for which it is intended, and will be infringed by the employment of such device for a purpose not mentioned in the patent. �Thns a patent for an improved clothes-fastehing attachment or clasp, will be infringed by a device substantially aimilar to It, used on a pocket-book, thongh the use of such fastener upon pocket-books ■was not mentioned or claimed in the patent. �3. Patent No. 47,135 — Clothes Fastener— Corset Fastener- An- �ticipation. �Letters patent No. 47,135, for an improved clothes fastener, con- sisting of a metallic plate, provided with a projecting stud applied to theunder lap of the article to be fastened, and a hing«d button or cap to shut down on the top of the stud, and enclose the upper lap of the article, when it'is slipped over the stud by a recess in it, held, not antidqxUed by a corset fastening in which the platb and cap are not hinged together, but are attaohed one to either side of the corset, and operate by slipping an eyelet placed in the cap oyer a stud placed in the plate. �4 Re-Issubs No. 8,106 and 8,123— Pocket-Book Clabps- Kohlman Clasp — Anticipation — Inpbingement. �Be-issued letters patent No. 8,106, for an improVed pocket-book clasp, consisting of a base plate with a stud attaohed thereto, over which an eyelet in the lap to be clasped passes, a cap whose tail- piece presses against a spring attached to the base plate and engages with it by arms working in flanges in the base plate, holding the cap and stud in connection, and permitting the cap tq;mpve back and allow the eyelet to be withdrawn; and re-issued letters patent No. 8,123, for an imprbved pocket-book clasp, consisting of a base plate And cap hinged «pon a slot^therein, with its tail-piece pressiug upon the free end of a spring attached thereto, holding the cap and hase in connection, and permitting' the cap to swing back and forth, so as to clasp, hetween it and the base, the lap desired to be held thereby, — Kdd, not anUcipated by the Eohiman clasp, having a base plate and box extendin j over a large part thereof, a cap extending ��� �