In re Fischer

Geaham, Presiding Judge,

delivered the opinion .of the court;

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office, which decision rejected claims 8 and 9 of appellant’s application for a patent on alleged improvements in expansion joints. The rejected claims are as follows:

8. An expansion joint comprising a waterproof binder reenforced throughout with long and short cotton fibers which have been interlocked in a mat-like structure.

9. Construction material comprising a preformed body of bitumnous material reenforced with long and short cotton fibers…