Appeal No. 96-3854
Application No. 08/027,872
appendix is incorrect . Claim 1 correctly reads as follows:3 4
1. An apparatus for monitoring membrane deposition
in a reverse osmosis system comprising:
an exterior body defining an interior compartment
receiving a fluid stream; and
a support membrane positioned in the interior
compartment removably supporting a reverse osmosis
membrane coupon parallel to the direction of fluid flow
of the fluid stream through the interior compartment
allowing the collection of deposition present within the
fluid stream on the reverse osmosis membrane coupon.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Madden 3,400,575 Sep. 10,
1968
Bach et al. (Bach) 4,389,879 Jun. 28,
1983
The following rejections are before us for review:
Claims 1 through 3, 5 through 7, 9 through 11, 13 through
3The word "for" in line 4 of claim 1, as it appears in the appendix,
was canceled by Paper No. 7.
4As a result of a typographical error in Paper No. 5, the original
recitation in claim 1 of a "support member" was changed to read "support
membrane." The error was carried over to Paper No. 7. Correction of claim 1 in
Paper No. 7 is in order upon return of this application to the jurisdiction of
the examiner.
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