Howell Edmunds Jackson

“ The first claim of the reissue, like the first claim of the original, is limited to a process, and the specification of the original declares that the invention 'relates particularly to a new and inexpensive process of constructing a glue-lined barrel, cask, etc.' The reissued specification broadens this description by adding at this point the following words: 'Better adapted to the purpose designed by coating and sizing, as set forth, than by the ordinary means;' and by the additional paragraph in the specification of the reissue, above recited. ”

“ The patentee's claim of novelty is based upon the theory that prior to 1873 and 1874 oil barrels were lined with the ordinary glue of commerce dissolved into a hot liquid glue of the proper consistency, and that the discovery made by him, after repeated experiments, was that the same effect could be accomplished with better and less expensive results by using the hot liquid or 'glue soup' at a proper consistency in the process of manufacture, before it had been prepared for commercial purposes by drying ”

“ The second claim being allowed upon this amendment of the specification, if the had any validity at all, cannot properly cover the coated barrel, cask, etc., as a product, but would have to be limited in its operation to the 'glue soup,' or material used in coating or sizing barrels, and the alleged superiority thereof in being absorbed into and strengthened by the wood fiber in some way distinguishable from and superior to the coating with glue in the ordinary way. ”

“ This lapse of time not only constitutes a bar, such as the statute of limitations interposes, but shows such laches as will clearly preclude any right to relief. McLean v. Fleming, 96 U.S. 245; Speidel v. ”