L. HAND, Circuit Judge (after stating the facts as above).
The most important issue, as we see it, is that of the public use by the plaintiff (for all the companies are to be taken as one for this purpose) before March 31, 1922. The machines then used were, we think, complete embodiments of the claims in suit. That question turns upon what is meant by the phrase, in claims 19 and 20, "ratchet means respectively for said plurality of feeding means." If this means the...
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