Appeal No. 95-3119 Page 12
Application No. 08/089,810
Maize-Products Co., 840 F.2d 902, 907, 5 USPQ2d 1788, 1792 (Fed.
Cir. 1988).
With this as background, we analyze the prior art applied by
the examiner in the rejection of the two independent claims on
appeal (i.e., claims 1 and 10).
Stewart discloses a fluidized bed boiler. As shown in
Figure 1 of Stewart, the fluidized bed boiler comprises a front
wall 12, a rear wall 14 and two side walls, one of which is shown
by the reference numeral 16. The upper portion of the boiler is
not shown for the convenience of presentation, it being
understood that it consists of a convection section, a roof and
an outlet for allowing the combustion gases to discharge from the
boiler, in a conventional manner. A partition 18 is disposed
within the boiler and has a vertical portion 18a which extends in
a parallel relation to the front wall 12 and the rear wall 14,
and a slanted portion 18b which extends from the upper extremity
of the vertical portion 18a to the front wall 12 and which has
a plurality of openings 18c, for reasons to be described later.
The partition 18 defines a first chamber 20 extending between the
front wall 12 and the partition 18, and a second chamber 22
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