In re Crews

Appellant claims invention relating to the art of typewriting, claims 1, 2, 3, and 4 being for a method patent, and claims 5, 6, 7, and 8 for a web-typing apparatus. These claims were successively rejected by the examiner, the Board of Examiners in Chief,'and the Commissioner of Patents, being brought before us by appeal from the decision of the latter, rendered December 21, 1927.

Claim No. 2 is typical of the four involved in the method application and No. 6 is typical of the four apparatus claims.

2. The method of producing an original writing and full and partial duplicates thereof at a…