Appeal No. 2000-0086
Application No. 08/831,603
Therefore, the rejections of all claims on appeal are affirmed.
Our reasons follow.
The following are our findings of fact with respect to the
scope and content of the prior art and the differences between
the prior art and the claimed subject matter. Kliesrath
discloses, in figures 7 and 8, a thermal blanket with a base
sheet formed of lower layer 54 and an upper layer of the base
sheet--the bottom sheet of bag 56. An overlying material sheet
is formed of the top sheet of bag 56 and upper layer 52.
Openings 58 are a means for exhausting a thermally controlled
inflating medium. Inlet conduit 60 provides an inflation inlet.
The portion of the blanket that extends beyond the bag 56 is
considered the claimed drape portion. According to the examiner,
Kliesrath lacks only the teaching of attaching the overlying
layer to the base sheet at a plurality of points. The examiner
is further of the view that Augustine teaches attaching the
overlying layer to the upper layer of the base at a plurality of
points.
It is our finding that the upper layer of the base sheet of
Kliesrath is attached to the overlying layer about the periphery
of the inflatable bag, which is to say, at a multiplicity of
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