In re Wilms

Appellant filed his application in the United States Patent Office for a patent on improved electric motor controllers. His application discloses his device to be an electric motor controller of that type in which an electromagnetic starting and stopping main or power switch is opened or closed by a manual control switch. The Board of Appeals, in its decision, thus sufficiently describes the device:

*897Tile invention is a motor starter switch. It comprises a box having an openable cover. On a panel fixed in the box is mounted a multiple pole switch and a magnet for closing it. The magnet is wired…