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 390 FBDEBA.L EEPOBTEE. �The inventer, referring, in his specifications, to the practice of his invention, says that he provides any suitable cbill-room or refrigera- ting chamber within or through whicb a carrent of air is produced. Such current may be either from the external atmosphere through the chill-room and thence ont again, or the room or chamber may be closed against access of the external atmosphere, and its contained air be caused to pass, over and over again, through a suitable ice-box or equivalent means of reducing the temperature thereof ; and this causing the air to pass repeatedly through the said ice-box, or the like, may be either by a change in the density of the air, as in the well-known Lyman refrigerator, or the circulation of the air through the ice-box may be produced by means of a fan-blower. �In the defendant's apparatus, the refrigeration is accomplished by a series of pipes arranged around the walls of the refrigerating chamber, extending nearly to the ceiling, through which the brine is mechanically forced. The air, being chilled by the pipes, flows out to the center of the chamber, v/heve it comas in contact with the meat, and, being warmed by it, rises and flows to the sides of the box, where it is again cooled by the pipes. The meat, covered with bur- laps or with cotton goods, like shirting, is exposed to this continu- ons current of air. �It does not require an expert to prove that such a process of cool- ing, with such a covering of the meat to be transported, falls within the claim of the complainant's patent. �There must be a decree against the defendants for the infnngement, and the usual refer.ence for an account. ���Seldbn and others v. Stockwell Self-Lighting Gas-subnee Co. {Circuit Court, S. D. Nm York. September 5, 1881.) �1. Letteeb Patent— PocKET-LiGHTiNa Device. �The flrst flve claims of reissue No. 8,490, granted to George Selden, Novem- ber 12, 1878, for an improvement in pocket- llghting devices, held to be in- fringed by the structure of the defendant, the differences between the two structures being merely formai. �2. SaME— ASSIGNMENIS. �Section 4895 of the Revised Statutes, which provides that patents may be granted and issued or reissued to the assignee of the inventer or discoverer, does not require that the assignee shall be the immediate assignee of the in- ventor. ��� �