Application of Carroll Trowbridge Kennedy

RICH, Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals affirming the rejection of.claims 32, 35-37, and 39-42, all claims remaining in appellant’s application serial No. 453,478, filed May 5, 1965, for a high strength tufted pile fabric and process for making it. We modify the board’s decision.

THE INVENTION

The gist of the invention is the use of unusually large amounts of textile lubricants on certain kinds of primary backings through which tufts are sewn in known manner by rows of tufting needles to make “tufted pile fabrics” (such as rugs) in order to reduce…