Application of Sigurd I. Lindell
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
1Opinion of the Court
RICH, Judge.
This appeal is from a decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals 1 affirming the final rejection of claims 1-8 in appellant’s application serial No. 174,-777, filed February 21, 1962, entitled “Circuit Interrupter Construction.” No claim has been allowed.
The invention is a circuit breaker in which an are is formed when the circuit is interrupted and in which the arc-confining surfaces are made of fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP). Except for the use of this material the claimed structure is old.
Claim 1 is illustrative (emphasis ours):
1. An electric circuit interrupter…
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