In re Thompson

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 all of the claims, Nos. 1 to 6, inclusive, in appellant’s application for a patent for an alleged invention relating to improvements in glass tank furnaces, and particularly that portion of *1059the superstructure of a glass tank furnace “between the glass line and the crown arch,” as set forth in the appealed claims of which claims 1 and 4 are illustrative. They read:

1. A glass tank furnace embodying a superstructure between the glass line and the…