Ex parte ZEIHER et al. - Page 3




          Appeal No. 96-3854                                                          
          Application No. 08/027,872                                                  


          appendix is incorrect .  Claim 1 correctly reads as follows:3                                    4               




                    1.  An apparatus for monitoring membrane deposition               
                    in a reverse osmosis system comprising:                           
                    an exterior body defining an interior compartment                 
               receiving a fluid stream; and                                          
                    a support membrane positioned in the interior                     
               compartment removably supporting a reverse osmosis                     
               membrane coupon parallel to the direction of fluid flow                
               of the fluid stream through the interior compartment                   
               allowing the collection of deposition present within the               
               fluid stream on the reverse osmosis membrane coupon.                   
               The prior art references of record relied upon by the                  
          examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:                              
          Madden                   3,400,575                     Sep. 10,             
          1968                                                                        
          Bach et al. (Bach)       4,389,879                     Jun. 28,             
          1983                                                                        
                   The following rejections are before us for review:                
               Claims 1 through 3, 5 through 7, 9 through 11, 13 through              



               3The word "for" in line 4 of claim 1, as it appears in the appendix,   
          was canceled by Paper No. 7.                                                
               4As a result of a typographical error in Paper No. 5, the original     
          recitation in claim 1 of a "support member" was changed to read "support    
          membrane." The error was carried over to Paper No. 7. Correction of claim 1 in
          Paper No. 7 is in order upon return of this application to the jurisdiction of
          the examiner.                                                               
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