Appeal No. 96-1819
Application 08/112,151
ciated” with the collecting means and the outlet port is adapted
for connection to the transfusion tubing but, on the other hand,
this same vacuum source is adapted for direct connection to the
drainage tubing and “is activated” to draw fluid from the wound.
How can a vacuum source that is “disconnected and disassociated”
be “activated” to draw fluid from the wound? This is simply
inaccurate on its face. That is, the vacuum source 14 is neither
“adapted for” direct connection to drainage tubing 68 nor
“activated” to draw blood when it (1) is “disconnected and
disassociated” from the collecting means and (2) the outlet port
is “adapted for connection to transfusion tubing.”
Similarly, we fail to understand how (as claim 10 expressly
requires) the system can be considered as
being connectable in a second mode wherein the interior
of the collecting means is in flow communication with
abient [sic, ambient] atmosphere and said outlet port
adapted for connection to transfusion tubing, the
manually operable portable vacuum source is adapted for
direct connection to said drainage tubing and is
activated to draw fluid from said wound into the
manually operable vacuum source. [Emphasis ours.]
Thus, in the same “second mode” the appellant has set forth that,
on the one hand, the outlet port is adapted for connection to the
transfusion tubing but, on the other hand, the vacuum source is
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