In re Smyth

This is an appeal from a decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming a decision of the examiner rejecting, for lack of patentability over the cited prior art, claims 1 to 6, inclusive, and 9 to 13, inclusive, of appellant’s application for a patent. Claims 7 and 8 were allowed.

Claim 1 is illustrative of the subject matter involved and reads as follows:

1. In combination, record playing means for reproducing phonograph records, a plurality of record carriers for carrying phonograph records to be played by said record playing means, record carrier operating…