In re Prescott

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 6, 12, 13, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, and 52 in appellants’ application for an alleged invention relating to improvements in automobile wheels.

Claims 6 and 46 are illustrative. They read:

6. In a wheel of the type described, the combination with a hub, of a body mounted on said hub, a tire rim removably mounted on said body, a series of *1380long-threaded nut and thrust screw devices obliquely arranged in said body and engaging said rim, and means…