Inasmuch as no defense of want of novelty, based on tlie prior patent to Bassett, has been interposed by the defendant, and we are unable to adopt the narrow construction of the first claim of the patent in suit contended for in behalf of the defendant, we are constrained to affirm the decree of the court below, and do not deem it necessary to add anything to tlie observations in tlie opinion of Judge Wheeler. The decree is affirmed, with costs.