In re Nichols

On February 21, 1944, appellant filed his application, serial No. 523,301, for a patent for an “Automatic Hydraulic Synchronizer.” The tribunals of the Patent Office allowed nine article claims and rejected all of the method claims, 22 to 27, inclusive From the decision of the board affirming the examiner in rejecting those claims, this appeal has been taken.

The application relates to a method of, and an apparatus for, automatically synchronizing two or more rotary machines, which are not of themselves capable of operating in synchronism. The term “syn-chronism” as used here means the…