Appeal No. 1998-0510
Application 08/742,519
that person is not working in the field of cable splices. The
use of a transparent hose to contain exiting fluid while
allowing visual observation of the condition of the exiting
fluid was a notoriously well known solution to the problem to
mechanics of ordinary skill in the automotive art, which
includes persons who do their own repair work, as evidenced by
Chilton's. It would have been obvious to one of ordinary
skill in the art to provide a transparent hose to the pressure
relief valves 36 in DeCarlo to contain the exiting encapsulant
in view of Chilton's.
The transparent hose of Chilton's meets the "light
transmissive material" limitation of claims 1 and 8, the
"elongate hollow tube" limitation of claim 2, the "translucent
material" limitation of claim 5, the "transparent material"
limitation of claim 6, and "means to observe the interior [of
the container]" limitation of claim 7. The "means for
attaching said tube to said outlet port" in claim 4 would have
been obvious over Chilton's which teaches that the hose for
bleeding brakes should have a smaller diameter than the
bleeder valve so that it will not leak or slip off.
CONCLUSION
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