Application of Hollman

JACKSON, Judge.

This appeal is from a decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming that of the Primary Examiner finally rejecting claim 46 of an application, Serial No. 642,941, filed January 23, 1946 for Automatic Lighting and Control Means. Twenty claims were allowed. ■

The involved claim was copied by appellant for interference purposes from a patent to Antrim, No. 2,520,298, dated August 29, 1950, upon an application, Serial No. 611,356, filed August 18, 1945. The involved claim reads as follows':

46. In a gas range having a top pilot burner, an oven with a…