Application of Osplack

JOHNSON, Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office. The board’s decision affirmed the holding of the Primary Examiner rejecting as unpatentable over the prior art claims 1 to 8 inclusive, all the claims in appellant’s application for a “Method of Making Precision Gears.”

The appealed claims relate to a method of producing gears which consists essentially in grinding the gear teeth directly and continuously into a preformed gear blank by means of a gear grinding machine operating on the hobbing principle. A suitable grinding apparatus…