Application of Headley Townsend Backhouse

GARRETT, Chief Judge.

This appeal was taken from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the rejection by the examiner of all the claims, six in number, of appellant's application for a patent entitled “Sheet-Feeding Apparatus.”

A general description of the device was given in the decision of the Board of Appeals as follows:

“The appealed claims relate to a device for elevating a pile of sheets of paper to be fed to a printing press in such a manner that the top of the pile is maintained at a substantially constant elevation as the sheets of paper are…