In re Slye

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 claim 66 in appellant’s application for a patent for an alleged invention relating to counting mechanism adapted to register both the quantity and cost of gasoline being dispensed from a filling station pump.

Several claims in appellant’s application were allowed by the Primary Examiner.

Appealed claim 66 reads:

66. The combination with a counter including counter wheels, transfer mechanism for actuating the higher order wheels, resetting…