Appeal No. 95-2638
Application 08/022,174
Claims 1 and 6, which are illustrative of the subject
matter on appeal, read as follows:
1. Quick cooking dehydrated vegetable pieces having
incorporated therein sodium chloride at a
concentration of at least 2% and an alkali metal
carboxylate at a concentration of 1 to 4%, said
concentrations being by weight of the quick cooking
dehydrated vegetable pieces.
6. A process of incorporating a mixture of sodium
chloride and an alkali metal carboxylate in quick
cooking dehydrated vegetable pieces at
concentrations of at least 2% sodium chloride and 1
to 4% alkali metal carboxylate by weight of the
vegetable pieces comprising partially dehydrating
the vegetable pieces to the extent wherein the
residual moisture content is between 10% and 45%,
adding to the partially dehydrated pieces a
predetermined quantity of a solution containing said
sodium chloride and alkali metal carboxylate at said
concentrations, the quantity of said solution being
such that it is totally absorbed by the vegetable
and thereafter dehydrating the vegetable pieces to a
predetermined moisture content.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Bevan et al. (Bevan) 4,088,790 May 09, 1978
Lewis et al. (Lewis) 4,447,460 May 08, 1984
Lioutas 4,832,969 May 23, 1989
The appealed claims stand rejected as follows: (1) claims
1 through 5 under 35 USC § 102(b) as anticipated by Lioutas;
(2) claims 1 through 9 and 14 through 17 under 35 USC § 103 as
unpatentable over the combined disclosures of Lioutas, Lewis,
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