Appeal No. 97-2746
Application 08/399,693
function of Fonden’s high pressure receptacle 5, pressure
reducing valve 8 and low pressure channel/reservoir 15 respond
fully to the rather broad claim recitations involving the
primary or first air supply tank, the pressure reducing valve
and the secondary or second air supply tank, respectively. As
pointed out by the appellant, however, “Fonden et al. do not
describe with any particularity the source of the air used to
charge first tank 5" (brief, page 5). As a result, Fonden
does not meet the limitations in claim 1
requiring the continuous coupling of a supply of air from an
air compressor to the primary air supply tank, the limitations
in claim 2 requiring a compressor to be coupled to the primary
air supply tank, or the limitations in claim 3 requiring that
pressure be maintained in the first tank by providing a
continuously available fluid coupling from a compressor to the
first tank so that the first tank is replenished when
necessary by the compressor.
Thus, Fonden does not disclose each and every element of
the subject matter recited in claims 1 through 3.
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