In re Shoemaker

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the decision of the Primary Examiner rejecting claims Nos. 1 to-11, inclusive, 13, and 14 in appellant’s application for a patent for an alleged invention relating to a composite bearing element consisting of a body or backing member' of iron, steel, brass, or other metal, and a lining or bearing metal facing of hardened lead alloy, such as “Satco- metal,” “Frary metal,.” “Bahnmetall,” or certain types of “Babbitt metal,” joined together *1034by means of an intervening bonding layer of solder,…