Application of Frederick H. Beach and Vincent Dirubbio

*210MARTIN, Judge.

The issue raised by this appeal is whether the Board of Appeals erred in sustaining the examiner’s action rejecting claim 26 of appellants’ patent application serial No. 496,662, filed March 25, 1965, titled “Loading.” Some claims have been allowed.

Claim 26 reads:

“26. A stepping mechanism for sequentially advancing a series of article holders to accurate locations at a plurality of successive work stations, said mechanism including an endless track having a succession of legs angularly connected to each other, a series of cylindrical article-holding blocks slidably mounted in…