Crenshaw

Appellant and cross-appellee brought a suit for the alleged infringement of patent No. 1,464,338, issued on August 7, 1923, to R. L. Puceinelli, which will be hereinafter referred to as the “Puceinelli patent,” principally utilized for the drying of fruit. The appellee and cross-appellant denied the infringement, and asserted that claims 1 and 2 of the aforementioned patent were invalid, pleaded that a number of prior patents and uses anticipated the same, and filed a cross-complaint charging the plaintiff with an infringement of patent No. 1,461,224, issued July 10, 1923, to J. W. Pearson, and subsequently transferred to defendant Crenshaw, which will be hereinafter referred to as the “Pearson patent,” for a drying apparatus also principally used for the drying of fruit.

The appellant and cross-appellee replied to the counterclaim averring that claim 11 of the Pearson patent was invalid because anticipated by prior patents. The. Puceinelli patent consists of two parallel chambers or tunnels, disposed side by side and of equal length and cross-section area, one being the furnace chamber which contains the apparatus for conditioning the air, and the other the drying tunnel. Drying…