Application of Rolf G. Gidlow and Jolyon A. Stein. Application of Rolf G. Gidlow and Robert L. Teders

WORLEY, Chief Judge.

These two appeals are from decisions of the Board of Appeals affirming the examiner’s rejection of all the claims in appellants’ applications 1 ******directed to agglomerated flour products and methods for their manufacture. While separate records and briefs were filed in each appeal, the issues are so closely related they will be disposed of in a single opinion.

The Griffin patent, 2 the primary basis for the rejection in each appeal, relates to a process for converting certain powdered materials into agglomerated products which are of lower bulk density and capable of…