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In re Goldman

356 F.2d 141, 53 C.C.P.A. 892, 148 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 437, 1966 CCPA LEXIS 481
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals·Decided February 10, 1966·No. No. 7579·Published·Cited by 1 cases

Opinion

Ai/moND, Judge,

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals affirming the rejection of claims 1, 25, 33 and 34 in appellant’s application1 for washing machines for washing animal cages, racks and other large articles. The examiner allowed seventeen other claims.

The application is accompanied by no less than seventeen drawings depicting appellant’s over-all embodiment of which Figure 1,. herewith reproduced, is sufficiently representative for the purpose at hand.

We deem it unnecessary, for reasons to become apparent, to dissect and point out the various means and elements comprising appellant’s over-all mechanism. The application discloses that appellant seeks, through the invention here claimed, to improve on the machine disclosed in a copending application.2 In this latter , machine, jets of water are sprayed simultaneously toward each other from opposite sides of the enclosure in which the objects to be washed are placed. It is stated that this arrangement did not prove satisfactory in that the sprays, simultaneously operating, tended to force the dirt washed from the articles toward the middle without being-washed all the way off the articles or passed through the drain. An object of the improvement here claimed is the provision of means to alternately spray water from each of a pair of opposite sides-, of the casing, so that the dirt from each side may be washed all the way across to the opposite side of the casing completely off' the article and pass to the drain. The object is accomplished through the means of spray heads with rotating apertured spray arms which automatically spray water in the washer for a predetermined period. The heads spray water in opposite directions sequentially.

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In re Goldman, 356 F.2d 141, 53 C.C.P.A. 892, 148 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 437, 1966 CCPA LEXIS 481 (ccpa 1966).

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