In re McKee

This is an appeal from a decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the decision of the examiner rejecting as unpatentable over prior art five claims of appellants’ application for patent entitled “For Meat Packing Method.” One claim, numbered 9, which also was rejected by the examiner, was allowed by the board. The rejected claims are numbered, respectively, 1, 6, 7, 8 and 10. They read as follows:

1. The packing house method of treating meat which consists in submitting the meat to a rapid draft of frigid atmosphere and thereby quickly freezing the same,…