Samuel Blatchford

“ In the use of carbureted air for illuminating purposes it is almost always the case that when the gasoline is first placed within the generator, it gives off a much greater amount of vapor, and the air, in passing through the generator, absorbs a greater amount of the carbon, and consequently becomes more thoroughly charged with, and is much richer in the illuminating qualities of the gasoline than when the generator has been charged for a greater lengh of time ”

“ If the flame be too weak, the tube, I, is turned down upon the burner, L, until the top of the inside thread of the tube begins to pass below the holes, c, when the gas will escape and pass up between the tube and burner, and increase the flame as before. If it should be desirable to stop the escape of gas through the holes, c, it is only necessary to turn up the tube upon the burner, and, when the thread inside the tube covers the holes, c, then there will be no escape of gas. ”

“ The testimony as to any additional or supplementary supply of gas in the Horace R. Barker burner amounts really to this only: that if that burner is used now in a way in which it was never designed to be used, and is not shown to have ever been used before Clough's invention, it may be made to furnish a supplementary supply of gas. Its structure was such that, to give full effect to its mode of operation, the surrounding-tube did not require ever to be raised so high as not to be in contact with the cone. ”

“ After such certificate was signed and filed, the Gilbert & Barker Manufacturing Company, one of the defendants in this suit, brought a suit in equity in the court below, as owner of the said patent granted to John F. Barker, for the infringement of the same, against Clough, the plaintiff in this suit, alleging as the infringement the making and selling of burners constructed exactly like the two forms described in the patent to said Barker. ”