Application of Arthur P. Shepard

ALMOND, Judge.

This is an appeal from the Board of Appeals affirming the examiner’s refusal to allow claims 28 through 39 in appellant’s patent application. 1 No other claims remain in the application.

The application discloses a specified spraywelding material and its use in a spraywelding process. Claims 28 through 35 are drawn to a spraywelding powder mixture. Claims 36 through 39 are drawn to a spraywelding process.

Appellant’s disclosed invention relates to a process called spraywelding. The background of this process and the problem arising therefrom is stated in appellant’s brief as…