Application of John L. Szajna and Ronald G. Lump

ALMOND, Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals, adhered to upon reconsideration, affirming the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-19, all of the claims in appellants’ application entitled “Method of Blowing Engraved Appearing Bottles Without the Use of Engraved Molds and Molds for Same.” 1

In the forming of plastic bottles by expanding a plastic tube under internal pressure within a mold, it is apparently desirous at times to produce bottles having surface ornamentation or indicia having the appearance of engraving. In order to achieve this, appellants…