Appeal No. 98-2691
Application No. 08/529,041
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1 to
23, 25, 27 and 28. Claims 24 and 26, the other claims in the
application, stand withdrawn from consideration under 37 CFR §
1.142(b) as being drawn to a nonelected invention.
The subject matter involved in this appeal concerns a
system for directing fluid in a particular repetitive pattern
onto a moving substrate, such as for high pressure water
cutting of a web of absorbent material to make components of
disposable diapers. The appealed claims are directed to
apparatus for directing a fluid (claims 1, 3 to 12, 27 and 28)
and for cutting (claims 2), and a method for directing a fluid
(claims 13, 15 to 23 and 25) and for cutting (claim 14). The 2
claims on appeal are reproduced in Appendix 1 of appellants’
brief.3
The references applied in the final rejection are:
Pearl 4,328,726 May 11,
1982
2In reviewing the application, we note that the tubing
coil recited in claims 8 and 17 is not shown in the drawings,
as required by 37 CFR § 1.83(a).
3All references herein to appellants’ brief are to the
revised brief filed on February 2, 1998.
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