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 TVISNEI!: f. lEANT 923 �on a rotary axle, in combination with a rotary ratchet wheel, and a dovice for Connecting the rake head to the ratchct at the will of the operator, for the purpose of raising the teeth and discharging the hay when the rake is advancing." �The foiirth claim is : "In a wheeled horse hay rafce, the com- bination of a revolving axle, a rooking head mounted on said axle as its oenter of oscillation, a lifting ratehet wheel at- tached to said axle and revolving therewith, a pawl or detent attached to the head and capable of engaging with the ratehet to dump the load, and a stop against whioh the pawl or detent strikes at its extreme forwiard movement to automatr ically release it from the ratehet and reset the rake teeth, sab- Btantially as described." �It is contended for the complainant that these claims are to be construed as covering all horse hay rakes which contain the several parts mentioned in the claims, in combination with an oscillating rake head mounted on a continuously revolving axle, 80 that the center of oscillation shall coineide with the center of rotation of the axle ; and it is conceded that unies» the claims are thus construed the complainant must fail in his actiou, It was doubtless intended by means of the re- issue to claim the broad invention thus contended for, and the description of the invention in the re-issue has been care- fully direoted to such claim by eliminating parts in the orig- inal which would tend to limit the claim to devices of a spe- cifie construction, and by inserting new matter pointing to the broad claim now urged. In the original the invention is described "to consist in a tubular rake head formed of two parts, connected by a suitable yoke, and so combined with the axle of the supporting wheels, and a ratehet and pawl," as to accomplish the desired resuit ; while in the re-issue it is described to consist in "the combination of a revolving main axle with an oscillating rake head, mounted on said axle as its support and center of oscillation," in combination with a ratehet and pawl. �I do not intend to say that any essential descriptive part of the original has been omitted, or that any new matter has been inserted in the re-issue which was not suggested in the ��� �