Samuel Blatchford

“ It is quite apparent, from this recital of the difficulties encountered by the plaintiff, none of which are alluded to in the specification of the patent, that, if he invented anything patentable, it consisted in some process of treating the hides so as to produce the merchantable article of fulled raw hide. But there is no suggestion of any such invention in the specification or the claim. There is no patentable combination of the automatic shifting device with the drum of the fulling machine. ”

“ A belt from a pulley on the solid shaft extends to a pulley on the last-named horizontal shaft, and by its action the screw will be turned in one direction until the lever has passed the center and fallen over so as to shift the belt to the other pulley, when the whole mechanism will be moved in an opposite direction until the screw has again moved the second sliding bar and reversed the lever. The specification states that the machine is thus made automatic in its action, and can be left until the work is entirely finished ”

“ A weight is secured to the top of the lever, so that as soon as the lever passes the center it will fall by its own weight, and suddenly shift the belt. In order to operate this lever, there is another sliding bar, which moves below and parallel with the sliding bar first mentioned, the second bar having pins upon each side of the lever, so that when the second bar is moved it will shift the lever. ”