Portland Telegram v. New England Fibre Blanket Co.

This is an appeal from an interlocutory decree enjoining defendants (appellants) from infringing patent No. 1,227,557, issued May 22, 1917, to Cochran and Youngs and by them later assigned to- plaintiff (appellee). The patent relates to what in the publishing business is known as a “make-ready,” which is a resilient covering for the impression cylinder of a modem rotary printing press. In the operation of such a press, the news print, flowing from a reel, is drawn like a ribbon between two rapidly revolving metal cylinders upon the circumferential surface of one of which is mounted the stereotype plate. Because of unavoidable- irregularities in the face of the type plate, it is requisite that the surface material of the impression cylinder, against which the paper is pressed in taking the imprint, have a measure of resiliency. To provide this is the function of the “make-ready.” It is scarcely necessary to add that when so built up, the two cylinders, one bearing the type plate and the other equipped with this cover, must be of equal diameter. Prior to 1911 the “make-ready” most commonly used consisted of two parts, first, a thin rubber sheet, and over that an outer sheet or…