Appeal No. 96-1633
Application 08/119,245
edge portion [of the resilient member] . . . to form a
continuous composite joint sealing gasket.” In article claim
1, the composite nature of the gasket is reflected in the
preamble, where the claim is characterized as being drawn to a
“composite gasket,” and in the body of the claim, which states
that the composite gasket comprises “an elongated flexible,
resilient member[,] . . . a tacky viscous, flowable joint
sealing composition supported [thereon,] . . . and further
including a release substrate on
said first side [of the resilient member], removably adhered
to said sealing composition.”3
Admittedly, when the Wohl sealing arrangement is in its
finished installed form (see Figure 10), the mastic 70
provides a “wet” seal between the panel B and the support
frame C, and the resilient sealing member A provides a “dry”
seal between the panel and the support frame. Thus, it would
3As aptly pointed out by appellants on page 6 of the
brief, presumably with respect to article claim 1, “[t]he
recitation of the release paper serves to emphasize the
‘composite’ nature of the gasket having both the dry sealing
element and the wet sealing composition in an integral
structure prior to application.”
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