In re Eliot

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the- United States Patent Office, which rejected claims 14 and 15 of appellant’s application for patent upon an alleged improvement in garages. Appellant’s rejected claims are represented by claim 14, which is as follows:

14. An open air garage comprising a skeleton building including a frame and a plurality of floors supported thereby and arranged one above another, the greater part of the spaces between floors normally occupied by outside walls being open, whereby the floors open directly to the outside atmosphere, guards located…