William Burnham Woods

“ We are clearly of opinion that the reissued patent is void.
It is evident on a cursory reading of the specification and claim of the original patent that it was meant to cover a combination of the several contrivances therein described, and not to cover the several elements of the combination as distinct inventions. No claim is made for the several parts of which the furnace is constructed, but for the 'arrangement embracing, for united use in the manner and for the purposes specified, the following features,' &c. ”

“ Brass Company (104 U.S. 350) , if any correction was desired it should have been applied for immediately; the right to have the correction made was abandoned and lost by unreasonable delay. That case is apposite and is conclusive of this. ”