Application of Desmond Walter Molins

SMITH, Judge.

The single issue here is whether appellant’s reissue application 1 contains sufficient disclosure to support rejected claim 4 which was copied from a patent to Korber 2 in order to provoke an interference. The Board of Appeals held it did not, hence this appeal.

Appellant’s patent and reissue application disclose an improvement in a tobacco manipulating machine for controlling the density of a stream of tobacco on a conveyor belt. Tobacco particles are showered on a conveyor and formed into a “filler” which can be enclosed in a paper wrapper to form a continuous wrapped rod which…