...for transmitting vocal sounds telegraphically, as herein described, by causing electric undu™ons, similar in form to the vibrations of the air accompanying the said vocal or other ^substantially as set forth." Toe "apparatus for transmitting vocal au<ids telegraphically"— that...

...circuit; or byA alternately increasing and diminishing the power of the battery as set forth. ) 5. The method of and apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically as herein o**«»t 48. described by causing electrical undulations similar in form to the vibrations of the air...

...recent Telephone Uatet, decided March 19, 1888, and reported in 126 U. 8. [81:868] Is as follows: "5. The method of, and apparatus for, transmitting vocal...vocal or other sounds, substantially as set forth." The claims of invention under the patent of January 80, 1877, are eight in number, and may be stated...

...claim is substantially identical with the fourth claim in that George Brown specification. " It is the method of and apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically," as therein described, "by causing electrical undulations similar in form." This patent contains in the...

...inductive action." Now that is the statement in the George Brown paper. What is his claim ? Claim 4 — " the method of and apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically, by " — in brackets — "inducing in a continuous voltaic circuit" — that is the end of the brackets...

...Telephone Cases, decided March 19, 1888, and reported in 126 US 1, 8 Sup. Ct. Rep. 778, is as follows: "(5) The method of and apparatus for transmitting vocal...the air accompanying the said vocal or other sounds, substan tially as set forth." The claims of inventior under the patent of January 30, 1877, aro eight...

...first half of the fifth claim of the Bell Telephone Patent, of 1876. It is as follows: "The method of transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically,...vocal or other sounds, substantially as set forth." Now, interpreting this claim from the specification, we find that the method "as herein described "...

...vibrations bf the air accompanying the said vocal or other sounds, substantially as set forth. •1. The apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically,...herein described, by causing electrical undulations, • * * substantially as set forth. Again : Bell's patent is not alone for the particular apparatus...

...air by the human voice ; and it also consisted in the process of transmitting sounds telegraphically, by causing electrical undulations, similar in form to the vibrations of the air caused by the sounds, to occur upon the conducting wire. M«. Bell obtained a patent for that invention,...

...was said by the Chief Justice, (p. 328; p. 537:) It is to be read (1) as a claim for "the method of transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically,...undulations similar in form to the vibrations of the air accompanding the said vocal or other sounds, substantially as set forth ;" and (2) as for "the apparatus...