Samuel Blatchford

“ As every device, apparatus, formula, law of nature, motion, and ingredient adopted by the complainant was old, the patent must be held invalid, unless it can be said that giving to oxygenated water a well-known rotary motion springs 'from that intuitive faculty of the mind put forth in the search of new results or new methods, creating what had not before existed, or bringing to light what lay hidden from vision.' Hollister v. ”

“ On the screw-shaft, above the top of the receptacle, is fixed a disk of wood or other suitable material, which catches the oil from the bearings of the power-shaft, and other foreign matters that otherwise would be liable to fall into the receptacle. The power-shaft is suspended in its bearings by suitable collars, which enable it to support the screw, and is driven from a horizontal shaft, through beveled gearing, or by other well-known or suitable mechanical means. ”

“ The method of making hydrogen peroxide by cooling the acid solution, imparting thereto a continuous movement of rotation, as well in vertical as in horizontal planes,-such, for example as imparted by a revolving screw in a receptacle,-and adding to said acid solution the binoxide in small quantities, while maintaining the low temperature and the rotary or eddying movements, substantially as described.' The answer sets up, among other defenses, that the alleged invention and patent do not contain any paten table subject-matter. ”