Application of Nicholas D. McKay

MARTIN, Judge.

This appeal is from a decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals affirming the examiner’s rejection of the single claim of appellant’s application1 for a design patent for a “Lint Remover.”

The single claim is for a lint remover “as shown and described.” Appellant’s lint remover comprises a cylindrical roller portion and a hollow, tapered, thin-walled, handle portion which extends outwardly coaxially from one of the end surfaces of the cylindrical roller portion. The largest diameter of the handle, which is appreciably smaller in diameter than the cylindrical roller portion,…