Appeal No. 1998-1668
Application No. 08/469,670
(b) reacting said precursor in said fluid bed in the
presence of finely divided particles of a catalyst for
converting said precursor to fibrils without the coproduction
of a thermal carbon overcoat under fibril-forming reaction-
conditions; and
(c) removing fibrils from said reactor at an effluent
port located in a lower part of said vertical reactor.
In the rejection of the appealed claims, the examiner
relies upon the following patent to appellants:
Mandeville et al. 5,500,200 Mar. 19, 1996
(U.S. '200)
Appellants' claimed invention is directed to a method and
apparatus for producing carbon fibrils without the
coproduction of a thermal carbon overcoat. The method
comprises introducing a gaseous fibril precursor into the
lower part of a vertical fluid bed reactor, reacting the
precursor in the presence of a catalyst, and removing the
produced fibrils from the reactor through a port located in
the lower part of the vertical reactor.
Appellants submit at page 4 of the Brief that "[t]he
presently pending claims are believed to stand or fall
together with respect to the presently pending rejection."
Accordingly, all the appealed claims stand or fall together
with claim 26.
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