Appeal No. 98-1022
Application 08/380,796
rejection of claims 27, 29-31, 37-39 and 42. Claims 32-36
have been objected to as depending from rejected claims and
indicated as being allowable if rewritten in independent form
to include the limitations of the claims from which they
depend. Claims 41 and 43-47, the only other claims pending in
the application, have been allowed.
Appellants’ invention pertains to a module for a low
volume waste handling system (claims 27, 29, 30 and 31), and
to a rotational molded or blow molded vacuum tank therefor
(claims 37-39 and 42). Independent claims 27 and 37 are
illustrative of the appealed subject matter and read as
follows:
27. An integral module for a low volume human waste
handling system comprising a vacuum tank and a vacuum pump,
the vacuum pump having an inlet directly connected to an
outlet from said vacuum tank; said vacuum tank of rotational
molded or blow molded plastic having flat walls, said flat
walls having no continuous flat surface of greater than about
80 square inches in area.
37. A rotational molded or blow molded vacuum tank of
plastic having flat walls, said flat walls having no
continuous flat surface of greater than about 80 square inches
in area.
The single reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in support of the rejection is:
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