Melville Fuller

“ Watson's was a patent for a wire-fence machine, the invention relating 'to that class of fence machines in which the pickets and wires are bound together and the fence put up in one operation.' Kitselman acquiesced in the rejection and withdrew his nineteenth original claim, and cannot now reasonably claim a construction which would protect his machine as a pioneer field machine. ”

“ In a wire fabric machine, a series of sectional twisters, each of which comprises a central section for carrying a warp wire, and having rotary movement imparted thereto, and the shifting sections for carrying the weft wire, and receiving rotary motion from the central section to form the twist, substantially as and for the purpose herein described. ”

“ A series of rotatable horizontal hollow spindles are mounted in suitable bearings in the rear and intermediate members of the frame, and are provided with gears in successive engagement with each other, each gear being rigidly fastened on its spindle, so that the rotation of the gear must rotate the spindle. ”

“ The statement further set forth 'the essential drawings and specifications of letters patent No. 10,743, granted John Nesmith April 4, 1854, and referred to in the opinion as most adequately representing one branch of the prior art,' namely, as stated by the court, loom machines by which wire netting was made in the factory, and then transferred to the field; and also figure 2 of the drawings of the Middaugh and Wilcox patent of December 23, 1884, that patent being regarded as 'the best example of the second branch of the prior art,' field machines which constructed the fence in situ. ”