Application of Malcolm

O’CONNELL, Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the action of the examiner in his rejection of claims 1 to 5, inclusive, in appellant’s application for a patent on new and useful improvements in valve apparatus and the seating means therefor.

None of appellant’s claims was allowed and all of them were finally rejected on the disclosures, singly or in combination, of the following references: Murray 1,732,241 Oct. 22, 1929; Malcolm 1,778,765 Oct. 21, 1930; Malcolm 2,131,710 Sept. 27, 1938; Malcolm 2,188,137 Jan. 23, 1940;…