Ex parte BROWN - Page 6




          Appeal No. 97-1226                                         Page 6           
          Application No. 08/288,479                                                  


          11 are disengaged from the neck aperture 3 of the inner vessel              
          2 and a conventional sealing closure, for example a screw cap,              
          is then used to close the neck aperture 3 of the inner vessel               
          2.  In an alternative embodiment (not shown), Davis discloses               
          (column 2, lines 38-43) that a substantially rigid inner                    
          vessel 2 is placed within a mould cavity in the appropriate                 
          orientation and the expanded polystyrene jacket is formed                   
          integrally around the inner vessel 2 and therefore does not                 
          consist of the respective upper and lower halves 4a, 4b.                    
          Lastly, Davis teaches (column 4, lines 3-17) that the                       
          containers of his invention may be used to store and dispense               
          any material which needs to be kept at a temperature other                  
          than the ambient temperature for a given period of time.  Such              
          materials include pharmaceuticals (including vaccines), other               
          chemicals, food, micro-encapsulated pesticides, and soup.                   


               Diamond discloses a combined jug and sprayer.  As shown                
          in Figure 2, the combined jug and sprayer includes a first                  
          container 11, a second container 20, and a sprayer 21.                      
          Diamond teaches (column 2, lines 38-45) that (1) the sprayer                
          21 is a manually actuated aspirating sprayer for delivering a               







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