Appeal No. 2000-0855
Application No. 08/597,377
We disagree.
Proxmire teaches an elastomeric nonwoven laminar fabric
strips or elastic structure comprising an elastomeric carrier
sheet 110, i.e., an elastic band, provided with a plurality of
apertures 120 (Fig. 18) through which the facing sheets 112,
114 (corresponding to the claimed material layers) on opposite
sides of the carrier sheet 110 are joined together with the
elastic band being held mechanically between the facing
sheets. It is also apparent to the members of this panel that
after the carrier sheet 110 has been laminated or bonded to
the facing sheets 112, 114 at the apertures 120, the sheet 110
is, at least to some degree, movable relative to the facing
sheets 112, 114, e.g., a portion of the facing sheet 112
located between apertures shown in the unstretched state in
Fig. 16 may be moved side-to-side or away from the carrier
sheet 110. Neither claim 4 nor claim 11 requires that the
elastic band be movable relative to the material layers at the
locations where the material layers are joined to one another
as the appellants seem to suggest. Further, neither claim 4
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