In re Irmscher

This is an appeal from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals affirming the final rejection of claims 2, 3, 31, and 55, of application serial No. 79,034, for “Manufacture of Packages with String Handles and Tags.” Twenty two claims have been allowed by the examiner or by .the Board of Appeals.

The appealed claims relate to a process and apparatus for forming, filled packages, such as tea bags, and while maintaining the said packages in “uniformly constant advancing motion” in a given path, *762forming in a second path separate string handles each attached at one end to a tag, and…