Appeal No. 95-1987
Application 08/076,475
Before KIMLIN, JOHN D. SMITH and PAK, Administrative Patent
Judges.
JOHN D. SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the examiner's final rejection of claims 1, 3-7 and 29-34.
Claims 1 and 4 are representative and are reproduced
below:
1. A method for vulcanizing and molding a rubber
compound comprising the steps of:
providing a mold formed of a single material, said
mold cooperating with a pair of electrode plates holding said
mold therebetween,
providing a rubber compound having a dielectric loss
factor regulated to a value of more than 0.20,
supplying said rubber compound into said mold,
pressurizing said mold and performing dielectric
heating under frequency in a range of 10 to 100 MHZ for vulca-
nizing said rubber compound concurrently with molding thereof
to a rubber article having a desired volume, wherein said
heating is directly applied to said mold via said electrode
plates.
4. The method for molding a rubber compound as set
forth in claim 1, wherein said rubber compound includes at
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