In re Ewald

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the decision of the Primary Examiner rejecting claims 15,16, and 22 in appellant’s application for *1313a patent for an alleged invention relating to improvements in fruit splitting apparatos.

Claims 15 and 22 are illustrative of the appealed claims. They read:

15. Fruit splitting apparatus comprising fruit severing means including means providing opposed surfaces disposed in the plane of the opposed surfaces of the fruit severing means and against which the cut sections of the fruit are adapted…