In re Becker

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 5, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 15 and 16 of appellant’s application for a patent. Claim 21 was rejected by the examiner but allowed by the board. Eleven other claims were allowed by both tribunals below. Claim 9 is an apparatus claim. The other appealed claims are process claims.

*923Claims 5 and 9 are illustrative of the claims in issue and read as follows:

5. A method of making artificial sausage casings of pasty animal or vegetable fibrous masses comprising…