ALLEN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing the complaint in a patent infringement suit and holding the claims of Carpenter patent 1,919,500 for an "apparatus for controlling the flow of refrigerant in a refrigerating apparatus" to be functional in character and void for direct anticipation by prior patents and for lack of patentable invention. The three claims of the patent are printed in the margin.
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