Appeal No. 95-0730
Application 08/068,575
24, 47 through 49, 51 and 53. No other claims are pending in the2
application.
Appellants’ invention relates to a hazardous material
treatment plant for processing hazardous material from a site.
According to claims 1 and 19, which are the only independent
claims on appeal, the treatment plant comprises a transportable
enclosure (150), a hazardous treatment facility (250) located in
the enclosure, a connection means (e.g., 252a) coupled to the
treatment facility and a connection port (100) located at the
site and coupled to the connection means. The connection port is
recited to comprise a means (e.g., 20, 21) for extracting the
hazardous material from ground soil and/or ground water at the
site for processing in the treatment facility, and the extracting
means, in turn, is recited to comprise one or more transport
lines extending into the ground at the site. Both of the
independent claims on appeal recite that the treatment facility
may be one of a plurality of different types of treatment
facilities and that one of the types of treatment facilities is
“optimized for treating a different concentration range of said
hazardous material than another of said types of hazardous
2An amendment (paper No. 19) filed after the final rejection and
involving claims 1, 2, 11, 16, 19, 22, 47 through 49, 51 and 53 has been
entered by the examiner.
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