MR. JUSTICE BLATCHFORD delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a suit in equity brought for the infringement of letters patent No. 87,241, granted February 23d, 1869, to Riley Burdett, the plaintiff, for 17 years from August 24th, 1868, for an "improvement in reed organs." The specification of the patent is in these words:
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