Appeal No. 2000-0803
Application 05/333,233
Thompson, one of the examiner’s primary references,
pertains to “room or space heaters of the type employing a
heat reflecting bowl and a radiant unit which is caused to
glow as a result of combustion of natural or artificial gas”
(page 1, left hand column, lines 1-4). The radiant unit
comprises a tubular radiant B heated by combustion of air and
gas. Radiant B “will become incandescent and its heat will be
radiated and projected by the reflector 3 to heat the room or
other space in which the heater is installed” (page 2, left
hand column, lines 41-44). Radiant B is made of wire mesh or
wire gauze (page 2, left hand column, lines 24-29).
Schade, the other of the examiner’s primary references,
is directed to a gas burner 10 comprising a burner head 24
having a honeycomb or gridwork structure 40 through which air
and gas fuel pass for combustion at the outlet end 44 of ports
42 (column 2, lines 30-42), a heat absorbing and dissipating
element 26, and a converter 8 “which is the ‘load’ of the
burner 10, [and which] comprises a cylindrical tubular member
12 closed at each end by insulating discs 18 and 20" (column
2, lines 3-5). Schade explains that the purpose of element 26
is to extract the heat energy from the burner flame in a small
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