THACHER, District Judge.
The circumstances under which the alleged invention described in patent No. 14,393 was conceived and developed are of controlling importance. Prior to his employment with the defendant company, in December, 1910, the patentee George was employed by the American Stopper Company, in whose plant he had seen the hand process of inserting pintles in tin packages. Believing that an automatic machine might be devised to do this work, he constructed...
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