Appeal No. 95-2944
Application No. 07/986,771
The subject matter on appeal relates to a system for marking
a continuous substrate which includes an elongate heater disposed
within an elongate housing and an outlet tube disposed proximate
to the elongate heater and substantially parallel to the elongate
heater within the elongate housing, wherein a significant portion
of gas directed through a gas inlet into the outlet tube is
heated by the elongate heater while being conducted through the
outlet tube and is then discharged from the outlet tube toward
the continuous substrate in the housing. This appealed subject
matter is adequately illustrated by independent claim 13 , a copy 2
of which taken from the appellants’ Specification is appended to
this decision.
The following references are relied upon by the examiner as
evidence of obviousness:
Stelling, Jr. (Stelling) 3,074,179 Jan. 22, 1963
Rünkel et al. (Rünkel) 4,565,524 Jan. 21, 1986
Fleissner 4,674,197 Jun. 23, 1987
Baxter et al. (Baxter) 4,708,887 Nov. 24, 1987
Claims 13 through 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Baxter in view of Fleissner and Stelling,
2On lines 4 and 5 from the bottom of claim 13, the phrase
“the aqueous-based ink” lacks strict antecedent basis and should
read, for example, --an aqueous-based ink--.
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