696 rEDEEAL EEPOEXEB. �nevr, and, as a resuit, we have a superior mill, cliaracterized by simplicity of construction and the facility with which its several parts may be set up; and, when finished, compact, convenient and durable. �The merits of the invention were quickly perceived by the public, The box mills in the general market prior to the introduction of the Strobridge mill had the hopper above the top of the box. Immediately upon the appearance of the com- plainant's mill it met with great popular favor and obtained a ready sale. It was accepted and adopted by the trade and went into general use. The Charles Parker Company, of Mer- iden, Connecticut, and the Peck, Stow & Wilcox Company, of Southington, Connecticut, soon took lioenses from the com- plainant, and these companies — both large manufacturera of coffee-mills — respectively make under the patent the mills known in this case as "Exhibit Charles Parker Mill" and "Exhibit Peck, Stow & Wilcox."- �Nelson H. Camp, agent for the Charles Parker Company, teetifles: "Shortly after we commenced selling these mills [Charles Parker millj in the market we received notice that we were infringing the said Strobridge patent, and, upon inves- tigation, concluded it was so, and took out a license to manu- facture under the patent which they granted us under a roy- aity ; and from that day to the present we have manufactured them very largely. The sale of these mills has been very large as compared with ail other mills we manufacture." �Webster L. Walkley testifies: "I have sold some mills, similarto 'Exhibit Strobridge,' manufactured by the Charles Parker Co., and more manufactured by the Peck, Stow & Wilcox Co. * * • From the first introduction of these mills they met with unparalleled success, and the trade who had been purchasing the raised hopper mills, about the coi'- responding size and price, to a very large degree substituted in their place, these sunken hopper mills. So that I should say that the sale of the ordinary raised hopper mill, as sold previous to the introduction of these mills, must have fallen oflF, in the aggregate, about one-half." �The letters patent themselvesj?nma/ade establish that the ����
