Application of Marcus L. Conrad

ALMOND, Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals affirming the rejection on prior art of appellant’s claims 1-6, all the claims in his application 1 entitled “Fluid Steering System.”

In aid of the description of appellant’s invention, we reproduce Figs. 1 and 1A of the application drawings:

Referring to Fig. /I of the drawing, which illustrates one preferred form of the invention, there is shown a steering system for a four-wheel vehicle which has a pair of double-acting fluid actuators 28 for turning the two wheels 12 at one end of the vehicle, a second…