Appeal No. 95-0072
Application 07/922,796
The references relied upon by the examiner are:
Ollis 4,033,800 July 5, 1977
Allan et al 2 085 324 April 28, 1982
(Published UK application)
Claims 1 through 5, 7, 8, and 13 through 19 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over Ollis.
The examiner characterizes the teachings of Ollis in the
following manner:
The Ollis patent discloses an apparatus for
applying a filling compound or shielding
composition to electrical cables wherein a
composition, 12, (col. 1, line 66) is introduced
into a main filling chamber, 26, and a bypass or
branch opening, 30, carries composition from main
filling chamber to pre-filling chamber, 22, (col.
2, lines 51-58). The pre-filling chamber is
provided with a common admission channel having a
diameter only slightly greater than that of the
bundle of cables, as illustrated in Figure 2. The
cylindrical passage connecting the pre-filling
chamber to the main filling chamber functions as
does Appellants' coating nozzle, and cylinder
opening, 24, (col. 2, line 48) calibrates the
diameter of the coated bundle exiting the main
filling chamber [answer, p. 3].
In the examiner's view, Ollis discloses an apparatus
corresponding to that claimed by the appellants except that Ollis
utilizes "a single channel or opening, 22, which functions both
to receive loose strands and to ‘pre-fill’ voids between the
strands, as opposed to Appellants' separate admission and pre-
filling channels" (answer, pages 3-4). On the basis of this
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