Appeal No. 96-0885
Application 08/108,932
are heated and dried using hot, dry air at a temperature of
about 140EF to about 300EF and a relative humidity of up to
5.5% (col. 2, lines 4-9). While the slices are heated and
dried, they can be vertically suspended from a bar, hook, wire
or the like, tumbled in a rotating drum, subjected to free
fall in a wind tunnel, placed in a box or press and pressed to
distort them, or pressed in a mold to shape them (col. 1,
lines 49-70). After the apple slices are heated, they are
exposed to cool, dry air which fixes their physical form (col.
2, lines 55-58). The apple slices become brittle when they
have cooled to a temperature below about 130EF (col. 2, lines
58-59).
Appellant’s independent claim 1 requires means on the
sheet layer to allow the sheet layer to be consistently folded
in a predetermined fashion about a fold line, and independent
claims 17 and 21 require means on the sheet layer for
facilitating bending of the sheet layer consistently at a fold
line.
The examiner argues that the hole in the center of
Robinson’s apple slices is the means which allows the slices
to be consistently folded about a fold line (answer, page 11).
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