Appeal No. 94-4357
Application No. 07/739,050
directing at least a portion of the purged exhaust gas
portion to surround the pulp during at least part of said pulp
consistency increasing step, thereby displacing ambient air
thereby reducing the nitrogen about the pulp with said exhaust
gas;
filling voids between individual particles of said pulp
with said exhaust gas as the consistency of the pulp is
increased;
directing said increased consistency pulp with voids
filled by said exhaust gas to the pulp bleaching step; and
directing said recycle gas into the ozone generator to
provide at least a portion of said oxygen containing feed gas.
The references of record relied upon by the examiner are:2
Gessner 3,525,665 Aug. 25,
1970
Samuelson 3,764,464 Oct.
09, 1973
Fritzvold et al. (Fritzvold) 4,279,694 Jul.
21, 1981
Namba et al. (Namba) 4,430,306 Feb. 07,
1984
Griggs et al. (Griggs) 5,164,043 Nov. 17,
1992
Tritschler et al. (Tritschler), “Commercial Manufacture and
Industrial Use of Ozone as an Oxidant,” Ozone Technology
2At page 2 of the Answer, the examiner inadvertently
refers to a Canadian Patent as the only prior art “relied upon
in the rejection [sic, rejections] of claims under appeal.”
However, the actual rejections set forth by the examiner at
pages 2 through 5 of the final rejection and pages 3 through 8
of the Answer indicate that the examiner is relied upon the
prior art references listed herein. This conclusion is also
supported by appellants’ Brief and Reply Brief.
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