Appeal No. 94-2864
Application No. 07/911,729
17. Method of making a paint applicator that can be mounted
on a paint roller, said method comprising the sequential steps
of:
a) continuously forming a cylindrical core of paint-
impervious material,
b) spirally winding onto, and bonding to, the core an
elongated strip of a resilient, reticulated reservoir,
c) forming on the exterior surface of the reservoir a
flexible reticulated metering layer which has at least
twice as many openings/cm as does the reservoir and a
thickness less than one-half that of the reservoir,
d) bonding the metering layer to the underlying
reservoir only at crossing points of the reticulations,
and
e) cutting the resulting composite to individual
roller lengths.
The references of record relied on by the examiner are:
Mallindine 3,588,264 Jun. 28, 1971
Scholl et al. (Scholl) 3,655,477 Apr. 11, 1972
Grewe 3,671,373 Aug. 11, 1970
Published British Patent Application having a publication number
of 1 214 170, “Adhesive Lamination of Flexible Webs,” Leo Marcel
Germain, Dec. 2, 1970 (hereinafter referred to as “Germain”).
Applicant’s admission at pages 1 and 2 of the specification
(hereinafter referred to as “admitted prior art”).
Claims 17 and 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
unpatentable over the admitted prior art in view of Grewe and
Germain. Claims 19 and 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as unpatentable over the admitted prior art in view of Grewe and
Germain as applied to claim 17 and 18 above, further in view
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