32 FEDERAL REPORTER.
much to require of a man who asks to be discharged from his debts
` without paying them. In this instance the bankrupts have not
observed the requirement. Their books fail to show their business
_ in an important particular, and to a large extent. We are therefore
compelled to dismiss their exceptions to the register’s report, and
refuse their application for a discharge. #
Danone v. Brcxronn and another.
(Uhwsuit Uourt, JW D. New York. 1882.)
1. Pyrmwrs ron INVENTIONB·—SEEDING·MACHINEB.
Where the grooves in the machine of the defendants were straight, or nearly
so, while those in the machine of complainant were oblique, it is not an in-
fringement. ·
2. S.ma-Vanrmom.
‘ A departure of one sixty-fourth of an inch from a straight line in defend-
ant’s grooves is not a sufficient divergence to constitute an infringement of
oblique grooves. A patentee must be held strictly to the language of his claim.
3. liv1=·mNcEMnNr—RnsroNsmu.rrY or Mmwacrunnn.
A manufacturer cannot be held responsible for any change in the form of his
. machine made by third parties after it has left the manufactory.
A Duell ce Hey, complainant’s solicitors. George W. Hey, of counsel.
F. L. Brown, defendants? solicitor. Wood cf Boyd, of counsel.
Coxm, D. J. This is an equity action for infringement, by the pat-
entee of an alleged improvement in seeding-machines, against Lyman
. Bickford and Helen M. Kirkpatrick, who are copartners, engaged in
the manufacture of agricultural implements, at Macedon, New
York. The patent was issued to complainant on the third day of
June, 187 9, his claim being described therein in the following
words:
** In combination with a seed—box or hopper, provided with a series of dis-
chargeopenings, a rock-shaft arranged longitudinally through the seed-box,
and provided at each discharge-opening with a segmental sweep, e, having in its
peripheral face oblique, parallel grooves of uniform width, constructed and
operating substantially in the manner herein described."
Complainant’s Exhibit No. 3 is apparently constructed in exact
, accordance with the specifications of the patent, the only apprecia-
ble diiference being that in the patent the thrust of the seed from end to
end of the hopper, when the machine is on a lateral incline, is pre-
vented by the circular sweeps; in the exhibit the same result is