In re Wolfe

This is an appeal from a decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming a decision of the examiner denying patentability, in view of the prior art, of all the claims (five in number) of appellant’s application for patent on alleged new and useful improvements in cabinets of the refrigerator type.

Claims 6 and 7 seem to be fairly illustrative, and are here quoted :

6. In a refrigerator cabinet, horizontal shelves placed in the rear of said cabinet and having a depth less than the depth of said cabinet, and complementary shelves on the same plane extending from the…