Application of Don C. Krammes

MARTIN, Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the examiner’s rejection of claims 18, 19, 23 through 27 and 29 of appellant’s application for a patent for a floor scrubber. One claim stands allowed.

The following claims are representative:

“18. A unitary floor scrubbing and drying appliance comprising, a water pick up suction nozzle for contact with a floor to be scrubbed, suction creating means, a suction line connecting said suction creating means to said nozzle for sucking up dirty detergent from said floor in the…