In re Dement
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Appeal from a Decision of an Assistant Commissioner of Patents. Patent application by Isaac S. Dement. Prom a decision of the Patent Office, rejecting certain claims of the application, the applicant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
SMYTH, Chief Justice.
Dement appeals from a decision of the Patent Office rejecting claims 20 to 31, inclusive, of his application for a patent relating to a computing machine. Por the purposes of our opinion it is sufficient to set out claims 20 and 29. They are:
20. In a calculating machine, the combination, with two groups of totalizer wheels, of means under control of the operator for transferring the number registered in either group to the other.
29. In a calculating machine, the combination of a plurality of sets of accumulators, a key mechanism whereby any one or any number of the…
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