Appeal No. 96-2059
Application No. 08/182,869
was canceled. Claims 22-33 stand withdrawn from further
consideration as directed to a non-elected invention.
Claim 1 is representative and is reproduced below:
1. A process for the formation of a unitary solid cleaning
product from a bed of particulate matter, said process comprising
the steps of:
(A) providing a container with walls penetrable by subinfrared
electromagnetic radiation and having within the container a bed
of particles of raw material, at least part of said raw materials
being a hydrated material; and wherein at least about 50% of the
mass of the bed of particles of raw material consists of material
selected from the group consisting of alkali metal and alkaline
earth metal salts of sulfates, carbonates, silicates, phosphates,
hydroxides, borates, and citrates,
(B) irradiating the bed of particles provided in step (A) for a
sufficient time with subinfrared electromagnetic radiation of
sufficient energy to cause the temperature of at least part of
said raw material to rise, and subsequently discontinuing the
irradiation of raw material and cooling it, so as to transform
the bed of particles into a macrosolid within said container,
said macrosolid having a bulk volume that is not grater [sic,
greater] than 1.20 times the bulk volume of the particle bed from
which it was formed.
The references of record relied upon by the examiner are:
DiSalvo et al. (DiSalvo) 3,849,327 Nov. 19, 1974
Wevers 4,087,369 May 2, 1978
Joshi 4,451,386 May 29, 1984
Thorsrud 4,968,726 Nov. 6, 1990
Claims 1-3, 5-7, 12-15, 19 and 20 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over Thorsrud in view of Joshi.
Claim 8 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable
over Thorsrud in view of Joshi and DiSalvo. Claims 9-11, 16-18,
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