Appeal No. 1996-3975
Application No. 08/328,179
parallel with the reactor. Furthermore, only one of the tanks,
the low
pressure flash tank, has an outlet with a conduit connected to
an analyzer transducer.
Therefore, we conclude that the combination of Mori and
Goffinet does not result in the claimed subject matter. The
examiner admits that Mori does not teach the use of either
first or second flash separation tanks. See Answer, page 3.
As for Goffinet, patentee discloses only a single low pressure
flash separation tank 13 which is attached to the reactor via
a conduit for reactor effluent stream 11. See column 4, lines
5-17, and Figure. Although the flash separation tank 13 is
connected to a sampling point and analyzer 19 this does not
result in the structure required by the claimed subject
matter. See Goffinet, column 4, lines 22-26. Stated
otherwise, the claimed subject matter recites a structure
wherein two flash separation tanks are attached to the reactor
in parallel via conduits. The high pressure flash separation
tank which has no connections to an analyzer transducer is
neither disclosed nor suggested by either Mori or Goffinet.
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