Interference between the application of Sidney M. Stevens, filed Dec. 8th, 1877, and the patent no. 187,776 granted to Henry W. Putnam, February 27, 1877 : also, interference between the application of S.M. Stevens, filed Dec. 8th, A.D. 1877, and the patent no. 173,667, granted to Henry W. Putnam, February 15, 1876 : wire barbing machines : Stevens' appeal to the Commissioner of Patents : brief on behalf of Henry W. Putnam / Thos. H. Dodge, Anthony Pollok, B.F. Thurston.