Appeal No. 1999-0930
Application 08/410,931
or chamber 14 which is entirely separated from a main ink
reservoir 15 within the body by a seated valve 7 (page 1,
lines 102 through 108). No air vent exists at the marking
point 2 of the brush, since the feeding grooves 13 terminate
just before the end of the nozzle 11 (page 2, lines 34 through
37). The patent to Bell teaches (Figs. 2, 6, and 7) a marking
instrument wherein depressions b’ in a brush guide admit free
limited flow of a liquid to supply a brush E on its outer
side. The Kitamura patent addresses a manicure liquid applying
device (Figs. 1 and 2) wherein a plurality of grooves 4c
facilitate the guiding of manicure liquid to the leading edge
of an applying portion 5 (column 4, lines 4 through 7). The
applying portion is constituted by a brush member folded in
two and then fixed by a stopper 6 (column 3, lines 64 through
66). The Yokosuka reference teaches a liquid applying tool
for manicure liquids or eye liner liquids.
It is apparent to us that one having ordinary skill in
the art would have fairly understood from the Gueret teaching
that the capillary striations 18 in the hollow portion or
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