Appeal No. 1998-3049
Application No. 08/463,558
Claims 19-21 of the copending Application indicate that the
fluidized mixer is pressurized as required by claims 18 and 35 of
the present application. Compare claims 18-20 and 35-38 in this
application with claims 18-21 of the copending Application. The
carrier gas of claim 18 of the present application includes oxygen
in the copending Application. See claim 27 of the present
application. Although claim 18 of the copending application does
not mention using a reactor vessel subsequent to a fluidized mixer,
claims 28 and 33 of the copending Application indicate that the
resulting pulp from the first fluidized mixer recited in claim 18
of the copending application can be further reacted in a second
fluidized mixer. The presently claimed reactor vessel embraces the
second fluidized mixer recited in claims 28 and 38 of the copending
Application. Claim 18 of the copending Application also requires
the removal of the residual gas. The residual gas is necessarily
oxygen since only ozone in a mixture (containing oxygen and ozone)
acts as the bleaching agent.
Appellants argue that claim 18 of the copending Application
recites a mixing time of about one second. The claims in the
present application do not preclude using the mixing time recited
in claim 18 of the copending Application.
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