Jonas

(after stating the facts as above).

The appellees were not the first to use ties attached to the upper and lower ticks of mattresses, or the first to subdivide the interior of a mattress into compartments. Before their invention, divirions had been made by strips fastened to the inner side of the upper and lower covers which were tied together after each compartment was filled, but in the prior art there was no method by which the complete operation of using and fastening the strips could be performed after the filling had been placed between the covers. The appellees were the .first to do this. To the use of inner tabs stitched to the inside of the mattress covers they added an eyelet in the outside mattress covers through which they inserted a mattress needle carrying a tie cord. The process of filling the mattress pressed the tabs against the eyelets so that the needle, when inserted, passed through the tab attached to the upper and the tab attached to the lower cover. The needle was then brought back through the tabs, but at different points, and, both ends of the cord being on the outside of the initial eyelet, a knot would be tied, which, on being pulled through the eyelet,…