In Re Horton

GARRETT, Associate Judge.

These eases present appeals from the decisions of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming decisions of the Examiner refusing to allow all of the claims in each ease (numbered 1 to 21, inclusive, in appeal No. 2827, and 1 to 15, inclusive, in appeal No. 2828) as defining nothing patentable over the prior art.

In both eases there were cited as references two patents to one Sachs; the first, No. 1,170,112, issued February 1, 1916, and the second, No. 1,181,483, issued May 2, 1916. In appeal No. 2827 there was also cited patent 1,338,180, issued…