Appeal No. 93-3623 Page 4
Application 07/629,690
fit joints are provided by inserting one end
section of a tube into the end section of
another tube, one of said leak-tight
interference fit joints being provided
between said first tube and said cylindrical
reaction chamber and the other being provided
between said second tube and said cylindrical
reaction chamber[,]1
said cylindrical reaction chamber containing at least
one strip of hydrophobic membrane bearing a peptide
sample, said strip being positioned in said cylindrical
reaction chamber with its longitudinal axis
substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of said
chamber.
19. A reactor for a protein or peptide sequenator
comprising:
an elongated body member;
a longitudinal passage for the flow of fluids
through said body member;
at least one end of said passage having a convex
surface to receive a cap member having a concave outer
surface;
the inner wall of a central portion of said
passage being raised, whereby the diameter of said
passage in said portion is reduced; and
shoulders at one end of said raised portion in
said passage to abut the end of an inlet or outlet tube
carried by said cap member.
7. Although Appellant states that claims 1-15, 19, and 20
are "the same or substantially the same as the claims at issue on
the consolidated Federal Circuit appeals" (Paper 18 at 3), the
second (claims 9-15) and third (claims 19 and 20) embodiments
first appeared in his later 07/174,956 application. Applicant
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