GARRETT, Associate Judge.
Appellant, Swain, seeks patent for improvements in tire rim construction; his application containing two claims. The application was rejected by the Examiner, whose decision was affirmed by the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office. The appeal to this court was then prosecuted.
Claim 1 is fairly representative:
"1. A tire rim having a rim base formed with a depressed gutter about one side thereof, the said gutter...
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