Appeal No. 1997-4264
Application No. 08/421,131
an elastic fabric made by the process for use in elasticized
portions of diapers, cuffs, waistbands, bandages, and the like
(brief, page 7). Appellant argues, inter alia, that the
applied prior art teaches, at best, using the stitch-bonded
elastic fabric taught
by Zafiroglu '421 as the elastic spacing members (77) in
Lawson and using adhesive, sonic bonding, thermal bonding or
conventional (i.e., non-elastic) thread to secure the stitch-
bonded elastic fabric taught by Zafiroglu '421 to the distal
ends
of Lawson's barrier cuffs. Thus, in appellant's view, the
prior art fails to teach or suggest a containment flap having
a distal
end or unattached edge which is stitched with an elastomeric
thread to render the flap contractible or gatherable (id. at
8).
Based on our review of Zafiroglu '421, we find that the
reference teaches using an elastic stitch-bonded fabric as the
elasticized portion of a diaper, cuff, waistband, bandage, and
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