HOUGH, Circuit Judge (after stating the facts as above).
It may be, and we think is, admitted that in its entirety the combination of parts producing a mechanism capable of doing what this machine does is an invention of importance, and both by its commercial success and the surmounted difficulties of co-ordinate operation, deserving of that sympathetic consideration, usually expressed by granting a wide range of equivalents.
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