. The railroad and engineering journal . Fig. I. BOTTOM VIEW. MILLERS PATENT, |S6^ the functions of the bevels ,r are to open gradually thegates K Now, accordmg to the complainants, as theJanney hooks had no gates, they required no bevel ,i, andtherefore the claim might be read as requiring but asingle bevel when such alleged equivalent devices were iiii!::iiiii: Miiimm, used with or without bumper-boxes, though this is notexactly definite. Fig. 3 is a cut taken from the patentof Jones. , It will be seen that the hooks C C were provided with abevel to separate them when the cars came together,
. The railroad and engineering journal . Fig. I. BOTTOM VIEW. MILLERS PATENT, |S6^ the functions of the bevels ,r are to open gradually thegates K Now, accordmg to the complainants, as theJanney hooks had no gates, they required no bevel ,i, andtherefore the claim might be read as requiring but asingle bevel when such alleged equivalent devices were iiii!::iiiii: Miiimm, used with or without bumper-boxes, though this is notexactly definite. Fig. 3 is a cut taken from the patentof Jones. , It will be seen that the hooks C C were provided with abevel to separate them when the cars came together, and iiiiiiiiiLiiii iiiiinnii^... Fig. JOSEPH .millers used. The view taken cannot be made clear here, for itwas not clear at the time of the trial or since. On read-ing over the testimony, months afterward, the matter isnot any clearer. However, without going into a carefulreview of the complainants position in this matter, it willbe best to refer at once to the state of the art and see justwhere Miller stood. It is not deemed necessary to go into a detailed des-cription of the Miller device as above shown, for, from thedrawing, it will be evident to those readers who are me-chanics precisely how the parts operated. The windlassfor opening the hooks and the like mechanism for open-ing the gates is clearly shown and needs no explanation. .\mong the earlier patents, the first which is worthy of ]notice is the patent of Joseph Miller, No. 11,940, datedNov. 14. 1854. I This earlier Miller (who we believe was a cousin of Ezra jMiller, the inventor we are speaking of) showed two hookswith a single bevel, but each pivoted i
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