Application of Lambert

COLE, Judge.

The appellants herein seek a reversal of the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office which affirmed the action of the Primary Examiner in rejecting all but one claim of appellants’ patent application for certain allegedly inventive improvements relating to a method and tank furnace for the making of glass.

Appealed claims 1, 3, 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 29, and 34 are drawn to a method of glass manufacture while claims 17, 28, 30, and 31 are directed to a tank furnace apparatus. These claims were rejected as being unpatentable over the prior art of record as…