In Re Holmes

LENROOT, Associate Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Board of Appeals of- the United States Patent Office, affirming a decision of the examiner, rejecting claims 1 to 4, inclusive, and 11 and 12 of appellant’s application.

Claim 1 is illustrative of the claims on appeal and reads as follows: “1. An elongated article of tubular shape formed of a relatively long section of a circumferential width substantially more than one-half the circumference of the article, and a number of shorter sections of a width to complete the circumference of the article weld od to said longer section on…