Appeal No. 1998-3016
Application No. 08/568,344
being in communication with one of said passages, an interior
of each said coalescer element being in communication with the
other of said passages; and
a respective housing surrounding each said coalescer
element, said respective housing being mounted on said base
member,
wherein each said respective flange consists of a metal
sheet with at least a portion of the metal sheet being coated
with rubber, said portion of the metal sheet which is coated
with rubber extending between said respective housing and said
base member to form a seal therebetween.
THE PRIOR ART
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Thurman 1,109,372 September 1, 1914
Briggs 3,118,837 January 21, 1964
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 1, 2, 5 and 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
102(b) as being clearly anticipated by either Thurman or
Briggs.
Claims 1, 2, 5 through 13 and 15 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over either Thurman
or Briggs taken in view of the general state of the art.2
2 In the examiner's advisory action (Paper No. 12, mailed September 24, 1997)
it is indicated that "Claims 4 and 14 are no longer rejected under 35 U.S.C.
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