Appeal No. 98-1563 Page 18
Application No. 08/469,198
With this as background, we analyze the prior art applied
by the examiner in the rejection of the claims on appeal.
Yokota illustrates in Figure 33 a conventional cement
clinker manufacturing apparatus. That apparatus includes a
pre-heating unit 1, a pre-calcining unit 2, a sintering unit
comprising a rotary kiln 3, and a cooling unit 4.
Yokota illustrates in Figures 34-38 a conventional
sintering apparatus, a conventional granulating furnace, and
conventional raw material injection apparatus together with a
fluidized bed furnace. The apparatus shown in Figure 38
includes a sintering fluidized bed furnace 573, a granulating
furnace 561 and cyclones 563 and 571.
Sukuki discloses a cement clinker manufacturing
apparatus. As shown in Figure 1, the cement clinker
manufacturing apparatus includes a spouted bed granulating
furnace 1, a fluidized bed burning furnace 2, cooler 10, and a
suspension preheater 3.
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