In Re Boyce

GARRETT, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the decision of the examiner rejecting three claims numbered 9, 10, and 11, embraced in a divisional application for patent for “Armature Assembling Machines.”

Claim 9 reads as follows:

“9. In a coil positioning machine for an armature assembly including a slotted core to receive the side portions of the armature coils, rotatable means for exerting a preliminary inserting pressure upon groups of adjacent coil sides, prior to application of full inserting pressure…