Samuel Blatchford

“ They are simply made to cut a piece of dough in the shape of a hand-made bretzel, while the dies offered by the defendants as anticipating the complainants' dies cut pieces of dough into forms corresponding with the letter B and character &, from which the internal scrap must be removed. These old dies also show expelling studs, by which the cut figure is expelled or pushed out of the die after being cut, performing the same function that is performed by the expelling studs in the patent. ”

“ The cutter herein shown is adapted, by means of the feet or projection, b', on the base, B, to be moved upon a flat surface and over the dough, and to cut from the same bretzels, which, being left upon a flat surface after cutting are not so liable to become misshaped as when cut by rotary cutters, as heretofore; and by the additional creasers, a5, a5, and the novel creasers, a7, a7, perfect semblance to a hand-made twisted bretzel is produced, while the creaser heretofore used, as a6, does not produce the desired result. ”

“ A flat bretzel-shaped die, having three off-bearing internal scrap passages or channels, and perforations for the expelling studs, in combination with the expelling studs, substantially as shown and described.' The answer of the defendants set up, among other defenses, 'that bretzels, for the cutting of while from the dough said pretended invention was made, are an old and well-known article, and have been known and in common use for a great many years, and long prior to the said pretended invention ”

“ The underlapped portion is further extended, as at a3, said extension crossing or overlapping an extension, a4, of the previously overlapped portion, a2. The extensions, a3, a4, are projected into the body of the bow, a. ”