Appeal No. 1997-1604 Application No. 08/273,688 This is a decision on an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1 through 18 which are all of the claims remaining in the application. The subject matter on appeal relates to a method for preparing a pourable, concentrated polymer/emulsifying surfactant/hydrophobic liquid composition by removing some portion of hydrophobic liquid from a starting composition in a first centrifuge, thereby producing the aforementioned pourable composition. The subject matter also relates to the pourable composition itself. This subject matter is adequately illustrated by independent method claims 1 and 17 and independent composition claims 12 and 18. A copy of these claims taken from the appellants’ brief is appended to this decision. The following references are relied upon by the examiner in the rejections before us: Krijnen et al. (Krijnen) 4,803,264 Feb. 7, 1989 Mallya et al. (Mallya) 4,944,888 Jul. 31, 1990 Scanley 5,155,156 Oct. 13, 1992 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007