Appeal No. 98-3013
Application No. 08/556,211
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-
16, all the claims in the present application. Claim 1 is
illustrative:
1. In an apparatus for the manufacture of carbonated
water comprising
(1) A carbonated water storage container having a bottom
wall,
(2) a perforated bowl connected to an upper portion of
said storage container, said perforated bowl having side walls
and a bottom wall and outlet ports in the side and bottom
walls,
(3) a water supply line connected to said storage
container at an upper portion thereof and arranged to spray
water into an inner portion of said perforated bowl, with
water droplets from the spray being from about 0.01 to 0.5 mm
in diameter,
(4) means to supply carbonic acid gas to the storage
container,
(5) a siphon tube having an open end near the bottom wall
of said water storage container to carry collected carbonated
water from the storage container, and
(6) said outlet ports in the bottom wall of said
perforated bowl permitting outflow therefrom of from about 3
to 30% of water supplied to said perforated bowl from said
water supply line, and said outlet ports in the sidewalls of
said perforated bowl permitting outflow therefrom of from
about 70 to 97% of water supplied to said perforated bowl from
said water supply line.
The examiner relies upon the following references as
evidence of obviousness:
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