In re Osse

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the decision of the Primary-Examiner rejecting claims 1 to 4, inclusive, 7, 8, and 9 in appellant’s application for a patent for an alleged invention relating to an apparatus designed for the purpose of separating gold and other metals from other materials such as sand.

Claims 2, 4, and 7 are illustrative of the appealed claims. They read:

2. A separator of the character described comprising a flexible sheet, a plurality of vertically movable members for intermittingly engaging and flexing…