Case ID: app-dc_41/html/0258-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Chief Justice Shepard", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

RE APPLICATION OF CHAPMAN.
    .Patents; Anticipation.
    An applicant’s, claims of improvement in the process of generating gas held to have been anticipated by Laekner’s patent No. 849,247, granted April ‘2, 1907. ....
    No. 867.
    Patent Appeal’s.'
    Submitted November 13, 1913.
    Decided December 1, 1913
    
      Hearing on an appeal from a decision of the Commissioner of Patents denying certain claims of an application for a patent.
    
      Affirmed.
    
    The facts are stated in the opinion.
    
      Mr. Isaac B. Owens for the appellant.
    
      Mr. Webster 8. Buchman for the Commissioner of Patents.
   Mr. Chief Justice Shepard

delivered the opinion of the Court:

William B. Chapman appeals from the denial of six of the nineteen claims of an application for a patent for an improvement in the art or process of generating gas.

The claims cover a method of generating a mass of incandescent fluid, forcing the air through the same to bring about a partial combustion, at the same time causing a relative movement between one portion of the incandescent mass in respect of another portion of the same, and independently of any relative movement of the incandescent fluid in respect of the ash.

In short, it comprises the twisting of the material in a producer in such a way that the movement of the mass controlled by relatively rotating parts will occur within the incandescent zone.

The drawing of an apparatus for the performance of the process accompanies the application. j

The reference relied on as an anticipation of the process is the patent of Lackner No. 849,247, granted April 2, 1907.

After a careful analysis of the process of the application, and that of the Lackner producer, the Commissioner concluded as follows: “In view of these facts, I am clearly of the opinion that the disclosure in the Lackner patent is such as to justify the conclusion that the process claimed by the applicant is performed by that apparatus, and is ample to warrant the conclusion that the claims do not set forth a new and patentable invention.”

Satisfied with the statement and reasoning of the Commissioner, it is unnecessary to add to the discussion.

The decision is affirmed, and it is ordered that this decision be certified to the Commissioner of Patents. Affirmed.