Appeal No. 97-2906
Application 08/367,837
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 1 through 6, all of the claims remaining in
the application. Claims 7 through 12 have been canceled.
Appellants’ invention relates to a spray head for use
with a spray gun having passages in a spray gun body for
delivering fluid (i.e., paint) and pressurized air to said spray
head. Of importance to appellants is the use of a fluid flow
valve mounted in the spray head, which fluid flow valve controls
the rate of flow of the fluid (i.e., paint) and thereby
eliminates the need to change the fluid tip size or to throttle
the trigger valve for adjusting the fluid discharge rate of the
spray gun. Independent claim 1 is representative of the subject
matter on appeal and a copy of that claim may be found in the
Appendix to appellants’ brief.
The prior art references of record listed by the
examiner as being relied upon in the rejections of the claims
under appeal are:
Atwater 1,913,149 June 6, 1933
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