Appeal No. 95-4857
Application 08/101,000
(A) Claims 1, 8 and 9 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b)
as anticipated by Igarashi. In col. 5, Table 4, Igarashi
discloses as Comparative Example 2 a fuel transporting hose
having an inner layer of a fluorine-containing resin, FEP,
with a thickness of 0.1 mm, an outside rubber layer of "N"
(acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber (NBR)), with a thickness of
1.6 mm, and an outer tube rubber layer of "C" (epichlorohydrin
rubber (ECO)), with a thickness of 1.0 mm. Igarashi's outside
rubber layer and outer tube rubber layer together constitute
"an outer layer comprised of a rubber material," as broadly
recited, having a total thickness of 2.6 mm and being 26 times
as thick as the inner layer, and therefore the disclosed hose
falls within the ranges recited in claim 1.
(B) Claims 4 to 7 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
unpatentable over Igarashi in view of Press, the latter of
which discloses that, when handling fluids such as aircraft
fuel in a fluoro-containing resin (PTFE) conduit, the conduit
should
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