Appeal No. 95-1744
Application 08/216,543
depends. Claims 1-7 and 17-20, the only other claims present in
the application, stand allowed.
We REVERSE.
The appellant’s invention pertains to a nasal
aspirator/irrigation device. Independent claim 8 is further
illustrative of the appealed subject matter and reads as follows:
8. A nasal aspirator/irrigation device comprising:
a hollow body having a top portion and a bottom
portion opposite said top portion;
a hollow capture chamber connected to said body
bottom portion;
a nasal conduit connected to said body top
portion, having a free end portion dimensioned to
fit into a human nostril;
a vacuum-connection conduit connected to said body
top portion remote from said nasal conduit;
a vacuum-control opening operatively defined in
said body top portion, remote from said nasal
conduit;
said device being dimensioned to fit in an adult
human hand; and
wherein said nasal conduit free end has the
general configuration of a hollow triangular prism
and provides a comfortable, sealed, fit of said
nasal conduit in a human nostril.
The references of record relied on by the examiner are:
Halstead 790,051 May 16, 1905
Lunas et al. (Lunas) 3,738,363 Jun. 12, 1973
McNeil et al. (McNeil) 4,828,546 May 09, 1989
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