Application of Ray

GARRETT, 'Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the rejection by the Primary Examiner, hereinafter referred to as the examiner, of claims 1, 4, 5, and 9 of appellant’s application for a patent for “Electromagnetically Controlled Operator.”

Two claims numbered respectively 7 and 10 were allowed by the examiner.

Appealed claim 1 is typical of all the appealed claims. It -reads :

“1. In an electromagnetically controlled device: an electromagnet -comprising a core member and a coil in flux-inducing relation to the core…