In re Boileau

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming that of the Primary Examiner who rejected all the claims in appellant’s application for a patent for alleged improvements on a horizontal, wooden churn of the revolving drum type, and more particularly to the sanitary arrangement for the supporting of the shelves or baffles within the drum.

The references are:

Hougland, 2,104,462, January 4, 1938.

Godfrey, 2,334,919, November 23, 1943.

Boileau, 2,359,744, October 10, 1944.

*728Appellant’s application, filed January 11,1940, is a “continuation in…