Application of Charles E. Tibbals

ALMOND, Judge.

Appellant, Charles C. Tibbals, appeals from the decision of the Board of Appeals affirming the examiner’s rejection of claims 27 and 28 of application Serial No. 657,184, filed May 6, 1957, entitled “Method of and Apparatus for Making Parquet Flooring Blocks.” The two appealed claims are directed to a method and were rejected on prior art. All of the apparatus claims of the application were allowed.

Claim 27 is illustrative and reads as follows:

“27. In a method of assembling individually elongated slats into parquet flooring units each comprising a plurality of slats, the steps…