In re Decker

This is an appeal from the decision of the Commissioner of Patents, rejecting certain claims of appellant, William II. Decker, in an application for patent, on the ground that they do not involve patentable novelty, in view of the prior art. Seven of appellant’s claims were rejected, the first of which sufficiently sets forth the issue, as follows:

“A bilged barrel body composed of a wound sheet of paper pulp disposed in a series of undistorted layers, superposed directly one upon another, each of which layers is of a uniform thickness and uniform degree of solidity from end to end of the…