Appeal No. 97-2116
Application 07/789,802
claim 1, or claims 3, 5 and 8 which depend therefrom, as being
unpatentable over Cvacho ‘423 in view of Hoffman, Cvacho ‘927
and Nixon. The Roales and Potts references additionally
applied in the rejection of claim 6 (rejection (d)), and the
Conklin reference additionally applied in the rejection of
claims 7 and 9 (rejection (e)), do not make up for the
deficiencies of the references applied in the rejection of
claims 1, 3, 5 and 8. Therefore, these rejections also cannot
be sustained.
Rejection (f)
Independent method claim 20 stands rejected as being
anticipated by Hoffman. The method of claim 20 comprises the
steps of providing a container having at least one open end
for filling with a product, encircling at least a portion of
the
container with a thermoplastic film, and subjecting the film
to elevated temperature and shrinking the film for applying
compressive force to the container radially prior to filling
and prior to applying an end closure to the open end.
Hoffman pertains to a system for applying heat shrink
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