Application of Walker Manufacturing Company

I fail to find in the majority opinion any articulated reason why the term “chambered pipe” is descriptive of appellant’s exhaust system not heretofore known, and thus I am not convinced that the opinion expressed therein that the term is “apt” and “clearly descriptive” is correct.

When 1 think of a chambered pipe, if I have any mind’s eye view at all, I would visualize a straight tube having spaced internal dividers. But then the term is self-contradictory, since a pipe is a hollow tube, yet to be “chambered” tends to defeat its functional purpose as a conduit.

Further, I agree with Judge…