Swain v. Booth

SMYTH, Chief Justice.

Swain appeals from a decision of the Commissioner of Patents awarding priority to Booth in an interference proceeding relative to an invention which concerns an improved vehicle wheel. The invention is described in one count, which reads as follows:

The new article of manufacture, comprising a semi-wood wheel for motor vehicles, and composed of a body of wooden spokes radiating from a common center, and each having an integral shaped outer end, in combination with a wrought metal endless fixed rim, which presents a demountable rim supporting raised back flange, said fixed…