Appeal No. 99-0629 Page 14
Application No. 08/778,059
USPQ2d 1089, 1091 (Fed. Cir. 1991) and In re Keller, 642 F.2d
413, 425, 208 USPQ 871, 881 (CCPA 1981).
Claims 17 through 22, 24 and 26 require first and second
reception chambers and first and second discharge means
associated with the first and second chambers, respectively.
Breneman discloses only one chamber or barrel (30) and one
discharge means (firing pin 33 and spring 34). The examiner
relies upon Wilson to show that the use of either a single
reception chamber and trigger or a plurality of reception
chambers and triggers is a matter of design choice (final
rejection, page 4).
Wilson discloses a water cannon apparatus comprising a
single-chamber pressurized fluid storage tank (11) connected
by a fluid conduit (16) to a single outlet port (17) of a
glove (15), shown in Figure 3, for permitting discharge of the
fluid upon actuation of a single trigger valve (19) or,
alternatively, a multiple-chamber tank (11a) connected via
multiple conduits to respective multiple outlet ports (41 to
44) of a modified glove (15a), shown in Figures 9 and 10
(column 3, line 42 to column 4, line 31). The multiple outlet
port embodiment comprises a trigger valve (45 to 48) for each
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