Appeal No. 97-2782 Page 7
Application No. 08/368,993
760, 772, 218 USPQ 781, 789 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied,
465 U.S. 1026 (1984)).
Claim 26
Claim 26 is drawn to a ceiling element comprising, inter
alia, a ceiling panel, at least one hose guide, and a hose for
conducting heat-transfer fluid. Claim 26 also recites that
(1) the hose is made of a flexible material having a first
cross-sectional shape when undeformed, and (2) the hose is
flexibly deformed when received in the hose guide so as to
assume a second cross-sectional shape.
Claim 26 is anticipated by Bergh. Bergh discloses a
radiant, linear ceiling panel 12. As shown in Figures 1-4,
the panel 12 comprises a panel 16, a radiator panel 22, a
flexible clip 24 and a copper flow tube 38. The inward side
26 of the radiator panel 22 includes a longitudinally
extending C-shaped channel 30 defined by channel walls 32.
Bergh teaches (column 3, lines 33-52) that the
copper flow tube 38 is grasped by the C-shaped channel 30
and runs almost the entire length of the panel, deviating
from and curving up and out of the channel near its end.
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