
    Case No. 6,277.
    
    HAZARD v. GREEN.
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    1847.
    Patents — Knows Thing — New Pcufose.
    The application of a known thing to a new purpose, as the use of rivets to fasten parts of a shoe instead of sewing, though such particular parts of the shoe had never before been so fastened, is not the subject of a patent.
   [CRANCH, Chief Judge.

Cited in Law, Dig. 488, to the point as stated above. Nowhere more fully reported; opinion not now accessible.]  