sentences:  Total orders accepted, shipped, and settled from this one distributor for 1887 was $72,822.47.Rowell was vigilant in defending his patents, even fighting patent infringements all the way to the US Supreme Court.In Rowell v. Lindsay, 113 US 97 (1885), JS and his brother Ira filed with the court to restrain the infringement of reissued letters patent No.