Application of Gene O. Sinex

SMITH, Judge.

Appellant has appealed from a decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals which affirmed the examiner’s rejection of claims 8 and 9 of appellant’s application 1 for patent for a “LIQUID RECONCENTRATING APPARATUS.” Both claims were rejected as unpaten-table over Harris 2 the only cited prior art reference.

Appellant’s invention is disclosed as embodied in a reeoncentrator for liquid dehydrating agents employed in a “field dehydrator” which is alleged to have particular utility when used to remove moisture from natural gas at the well head. Appellant explains this use in his…