In re Pennington

Johnson, Chief Judge,

delivered tlie opinion of the court:

This is an appeal from a decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office, rejecting claims 9-15, the only remain*790ing claims in appellant’s application for a patent for a “Rotatable Evaporative Cooler for Air-Conditioning,” as unpatentable over the prior art. Appellant’s petition for reconsideration of the decision was granted by the board but resulted only in a modification of its opinion, without any change in the decision rendered.

Claims 9 and 14, which are illustrative of the appealed claims, read as follows:

9. A…