pushes the upper end of the can through the conical guide which serves to size the upper end of the can in perfect alignment for the caps, and inserts the can in the cap. An upper plunger holds the cap in place, and, after the can is capped, descends on top of the can, holding it steady, while the semicircular slides recede and allow the capped can to pass through the conical guide and descend to the table where it is grasped between the last two arms of the feeder and carried to the crimping mechanism. In cut IV, "Jensen's Capping Mechanism," the lower plunger is marked S. Directly above it is the conical guide, marked T', T. Immediately above the conical guide are the transversely moving slides, T, T. The upper plunger is marked U.

The appellants' machine is described as follows: Cut V, "Letson & Burpee Can-Feeding Mechanism," shows that combination of the machine which delivers the cans to the feeder. 59 is the endless traveling belt. B, B, are the cans resting thereon. The devices marked 79, 79, are the spacing devices separating the cans, and regulating their direction to the feeder. The device marked 36 is a recessed wheel on a spindle, and rotating across the surface of the belt. When the can reaches the wheel, it is caught in one of the recesses of the wheel as it rotates, and is thereby removed from the belt into a circular guideway, shown in the drawing, and is carried along the guideway to a disk which is the upper surface of the lower plunger. Cut VI shows the appellants' mechanism for delivering the caps. The caps are carried by an endless horizontal belt. Letter N represents the trigger in the path of the moving cans. The trigger is connected with a stop which restrains the caps on the carrying belt. When the can strikes the trigger the stop releases the cap, and the carrying belt carries the released cap to a device which places it on the capping mechanism. Cut VII shows the appellants' can-capping mechanism. The feeder, 36, is represented as having placed a can on the lower plunger. The plunger represented by the figure 19 consists of a disk on which the can rests, and a spindle passing loosely through a vertical hole in the rotating arm 14a. The bottom of the spindle moves on the stationary cam face, 46, which is an inclined plane. As the spindle moves on the cam, it is pushed upward through the conical guide, 21. Immediately above the conical guide are three transversely moving slides for holding caps. Above these slides is a second plunger, 26, called a "cap presser."

The claims of the appellee's patent which are alleged to be infringed are the following:

"(1) An endless traveling carrying-belt, a stop, E, extending across it to change the direction of the cans, and arms swinging over the belt, whereby the delivery of the cans from the belt to the feeder is rendered exact, substantially as herein described."

“(3) In combination with a transverse belt, the feeder having the projecting arms between which the cans are received from the belt and the actuating devices by which the motions of the feeder are produced, substantially as herein described."

"(5) The inclined chute into which the caps are placed, and a stop extending across said chute, so as to prevent the caps from moving downwards, in combination with a trigger extending across the path of the cans as they are moved toward the capping table, said trigger being connected with the stop, so that, as it is moved backward by the passage of the can, it withdraws the stop to allow a cap to move down the chute, substantially as herein described." "(9) The vertically moving plunger upon which the cans are delivered by the feeder, in combination with the conica! guide situated above the cans, and the transversely moving slides upon which the caps are received and held, with a mechanism by which the slides are withdrawn as the can enters the cap, substantially as herein described.

"(10) The vertically moving plunger by which the can is raised to receive the cap, and the guide into which the upper end of the can enters the transversely moving cap-holding slides, in combination with the second plunger moving vertically above the cap, and following it down by gravitation or otherwise, so as to steady the can in its descent after the cap has been applied, substantially as herein described.

"(11) The vertically moving plunger upon which the can is received, a carrier for placing the can upon the plunger, and a mechanism by which this

plunger is reciprocated vertically in combination with a second plunger, which rests upon the top of the cap, and steadies it while descending, and a mechanism for raising the second plunger before the arrival of the next cap, substantially as herein described."

The following are the cuts referred to in the statement: