Appeal No. 96-3615
Application 08/237,567
U.S.C. § 103. We add that this reversal is not based on the
merits of the examiner’s rejections. We take no position as
to the pertinence of the applied prior art to the specifics of
these claims.
Independent claim 23 requires, inter alia, a brace
attached to the support for the container and a means for
detecting rotational position attached to said brace.
Independent claim 29 contains similar language. This feature
is not disclosed or suggested by the combined teachings of
Alonso and Fan, or the combined teachings of Alonso and
Fischer. It follows that we cannot sustain the standing § 103
rejections of these claims, or claim 30 which depends from
claim 29, based on Alonso and either Fan or Fischer.
Claim 24 is directed to an apparatus comprising a V-
blender having an aperture, an arbor having a tunnel
therethrough sealing said aperture, means for rotating the V-
blender about said arbor, and detection means including a
spectroscopic means for detecting on-line the homogeneity of
the mixture in the V-blender. The detection means includes
means for conducting radiation to and from the mixture, with
said means for conducting being removably inserted in the
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