Appeal No. 95-3094
Application No. 07/975, 141
This is an appeal pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the
final rejection of claims 18 and 35-45. Claims 46-59 stand
withdrawn from further consideration as directed to a non-
elected invention. Claim 18 is representative and is
reproduced below:
Claim 18. A continuous, linearly intermixed fiber tow useful
in forming composite molded articles which comprises an
intimately, uniformly and continuously intermixed blend of
about 90 to about 30% by volume, based on the total fiber
content, of spun, continuous, individual, thermoplastic
polymer fibers having a melting point of at least about 50°C
and about 10 to about 70% by volume, based on the total fiber
content, of continuous, individual, carbon fibers wherein
there is a substantially uniform distribution of the
thermoplastic fibers and the carbon fibers within the
intermixed tow.
The references of record relied upon by the examiner are:
Hicks, Jr. (Hicks) 2,964,900 Dec. 20, 1960
Nina et al. (Nina) 3,358,436 Dec. 19, 1967
Smith 0 033 244 Aug. 5, 1981
(Published EPA Patent Application)
Davis 1 200 341 Jul. 29, 1970
(Published UK Patent Application)
Baucom, "Solventless Fabrication of Reinforced Composites",
NASA Tech Brief, Fall (1992).
The appealed claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as unpatentable over Baucom. The appealed claims also stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over Baucom in
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