In re Modine

Graham, Presiding Judge,

delivered tbe opinion of tbe court:

Appellant filed bis claim in tbe United States Patent Office for a [jatent on certain claimed improvements in a radiator, such as is .commonly used as a cooling device in connection with an internal-combustion motor. His device consists of an arrangement of the ordinary fluid circulating radiator, with a sezies of horizontal air-eonducting tubes extending through tbe radiator. These tubes have a centrally located vane, comprising a thin flat strip of, preferably, sheet metal. Portions of this vane are severed or struck up from the…