In re Trier

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board .of Appeals of' the United States Patent Office affirming the decision of the Primary Examiner rejecting claims 1 to 13, inclusive, 15 and 17 to 21, inclusive* in appellants’ application for a patent for an invention relating to a bottle washing apparatus.

*702Claims 1, 5,12, and 17 are sufficiently representative of the appealed claims. They read :

1. A machine for washing bottles or similar containers including intermittently movable bottle or container conveying means, bottle or container support means carried by said conveying means and adapted…