Application of Richards

JOHNSON, Judge.

One claim of appellant's application for a patent for a compensating pattern control device for a shotgun was allowed by the Primary Examiner, but four were rejected as unpatentable over the prior art, the Board of Appeals affirming the rejection. The appellant filed a Petition for Reconsideration which was denied by the board, and from these decisions appellant has appealed to this court. R.S. 4911, 35 U.S.C.A. § 59a.

The invention resides in what appellant alleges is the first combination of a continuously variable shotgun pattern control device with a compensator or recoil…