Application of Beltz

JOHNSON, Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office sustaining that of the Primary Examiner finally rejecting claims 1, 2, and 4 to 44, all of the claims in the case, in appellant’s application for a patent for an improvement in a “Combination Mining and Loading Machine.” Claims 19 and 32, acted upon by the examiner, were withdrawn by the appellant when he carried the case on appeal to the board, and were accordingly dismissed by the board. After the decision of the board was rendered, and concurrently with noting his appeal here,…