Appeal No. 98-2456
Application No. 08/748,158
26, the only other claims remaining in this application, have
been allowed. In the examiner’s answer (page 3), the examiner
has indicated that claim 18 is now also allowed, thus, leaving
only claims 10, 14, 23, 24, 27 and 28 for our consideration on
appeal.
Appellant’s invention is directed to a disposable razor
that has a feature to record how many times it has been used.
As noted on page 2 of the specification,
[i]n the several embodiments, the disposable
razor includes push tabs formed into the handle so
that external pressure applied onto a surface of a
push tab, as applied with the user's finger or
thumb, will cause a portion of the push tab to break
away from the remainder of the handle leaving a
visible "break line" that will serve to record a
single usage. Ideally, the razor handle will be
formed of plastic by the plastic injection molding
process. In each of the embodiments shown, the
handles (if formed of plastic) can be manufactured
by the injection molding process in molds that do
not require the use of "slides". Slides are a
feature necessarily present on some (but not all)
plastic injection molds. When slides must be used
in an injection mold, the per part manufacturing
cost of the item being molded are [sic, is]
generally higher.
No prior art references have been applied against the
claims before us on appeal.
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