Isom v. Dubbs

ROBB, Associate Justice.

Appeal from the decision of the Commissioner of Patents in an interference proceeding, in which priority of invention was awarded Dubbs, the senior party.

The counts are two in number, and read as follows:

“1. In a device of the class described, a furnace having heating flues therein, substantially vertical heating pipes extending through said heating flues, a supply tank, a connection from said heating pipes to said tank, a liquid forcing means, and connections from said tank and heating pipes to said means.

“2. An apparatus for cracking hydrocarbons, comprising a tank…