In re Cornell

The Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office having-affirmed the decision of the examiner rejecting three claims (being all the claims) numbered respectively 20, 21, and 22 of appellant’s application for patent relating to a process of removing voids, or air bubbles, from a plastic vesicular material by centrifugally attenuating it, the instant appeal was taken seeking review of the board’s decision.

The specification describes the material upon which the process operates as being of “* * * such a stiffness as to prevent the *1162air bubbles comprising the voids from rising to the…