In re Heap

This is an appeal from a decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office, affirming a decision of the examiner, *951rejecting all of the claims of appellant’s application for want of invention over the prior art. The three claims of the application read as follows:

1. A lead-acid storage battery negative pole plate containing finely ground peat.

2. A lead-acid storage battery negative pole plate containing approximately one half of 1% of finely ground peat.

3. A paste for the manufacture of lead-acid storage battery negative pole plates containing the resultant products of an…