In re Attwood

This is an appeal from a decision- of the Patent Office Board of Appeals, rejecting claims 8 to 13, inclusive, of appellant’s application No. 143,760, filed February 11, 1950,: for “Improvements in Concrete Inserts,” as unpatentable over the prior art. No claims have been allowed.

Claims 8 and 9 are representative of the appealed claims and read ■as follows: ’

8. A concrete insert comprising a metallic channel member having pairs of longitudinally spaced anchor tongues projecting outwardly from the back wall thereof, said tongues consisting of portions of the wall material displaced angularly…