Appeal No. 1998-3016
Application No. 08/568,344
THE INVENTION
The appellants' invention relates to a flange for a
device which separates oil from air (specification, p. 1). A
copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix
to the appellants' brief.1
Claims 1 and 11 are illustrative and read as follows:
1. An apparatus for separating an oil aerosol from air
comprising:
a base member;
an annular coalescer mounted on said base member via a
flange consisting of metal sheet coated with rubber; and
a housing surrounding said coalescer, said housing being
mounted on said base member,
wherein said flange extends between said housing and said
base member to form a seal therebetween.
11. An apparatus for separating an oil aerosol from air,
comprising:
a base member including a passage for an air-oil mixture
and a passage for clean air;
at least two annular coalescer elements, each said
coalescer element being mounted on said base member via a
respective flange, an exterior of each said coalescer element
1 Claims 4 and 14, indicated in the examiner's advisory action (Paper No. 12,
mailed September 24, 1997) as "being allowable if rewritten in independent
form including all the limitations of the base claim and any intervening
claims" are not provided in appellants' appendix to the brief.
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