[Newspaper]
Publication: The St. Louis Globe-Democrat
St. Louis, MO, United States
vol. 1, no. 21, p. 3, col. 2
THE COURTS.
United States Circuit Court.
The Consolidated Fruit Jar Company vs. the Mississippi Glass Company and George D. Humphreys. This suit is to recover damages of the Mississippi Glass Company, of St. Louis, for making a fruit jar with a porcelain lined screw cap, which screws upon a glass jar and seals it air-tight. The jars are very extensively used throughout the whole country for preserving fruit. The Consolidated Fruit Jar Company of New York city claim to own several letters patent, covering various features of the jar, such as, for instance, the porcelain lining of the cap, the vanishing screw thread on the neck of the glass jar, the construction of the screw cap and the little nib or projection on the side of the cap by which it is screwed firmly into place. It is claimed that the Mississippi Glass Company make and sell a jar embodying these patents, and the Consolidated Fruit Jar Company claim [dollar:$20,000] damages and ask for an injunction to stop any further sale. Lewis L. Coburn, of Chicago, is the solicitor for the Consolidated Fruit Jar Company, and leaves here to-night to commence suit against the Hemingray Glass Company of Cincinnati. He is instructed to prosecute all infringers of the rights secured by the patents of his clients.
