Appeal 2006-3345
Application 10/256,982
SUMMARY OF DECISION
We AFFIRM-IN-PART.
THE INVENTION
Appellants invented a system for sealing an opening of a package within a
vacuum chamber (Specification 1: [0001]). Claims 1, 9, and 14, reproduced
below, are representative of the subject matter on appeal.
1. A vacuum packaging machine comprising:
a chamber;
a vacuum generator operable to generate which
generates a vacuum within said chamber;
a sealing mechanism disposed within said chamber
and including opposing sealing bars arranged to receive
the open end of a package disposed within said chamber
and operable to close the sealing bars about the open end
of the package; and
means for continuously heating at least one sealing
bar when said vacuum generator is operated to generate
said vacuum and said sealing mechanism is operated to
close said sealing bars about the open end of the package.
9. A method for vacuum sealing a package
comprising the steps of:
supporting a package within a vacuum chamber
with the open end of the
package between sealing bars of a sealing
mechanism disposed within the chamber;
generating a vacuum in the chamber;
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