Appeal No. 95-3861
Application No. 08/115,453
This is a decision on an appeal from the examiner's
refusal to allow claims 24 through 32 which are all of the
claims pending in the present application.
Claims 24 is representative of the subject matter on
appeal and reads as follows:
24. Apparatus for the production of dough with a gluten
framework, including the production of paste dough from starch
and protein containing raw materials including flour, middling
or semolina, comprising:
a) a metering unit for the metering of all liquid and
dry components;
b) two-shaft kneading means having two synchronously
running and self-cleaning shafts for kneading said dough
without the application of molding pressure and for forming
the gluten framework in a continuous through process;
c) a single-shaft screw press receiving said dough from
said kneading means, including means for homogenizing said
dough and applying pressure thereto, in order to press said
dough into a desired shape; and
d) means for transferring the dough from said two-shaft
kneading means to said single shaft screw press without any
pressure build-up in said kneading means and without causing
temperature rise of the dough.
The underlined claim phrases are means-plus-function
language to which we must apply the statutory provisions of 35
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