Appeal No. 1996-2718
Application No. 08/221,207
the invention.
C. Under 35 U.S.C. ' 103, claims 1-4, 6-8, and 10 stand rejected as obvious to one of ordinary
skill in the art at the time the invention was made.
1. Claims 1-4, 7, 8, and 10 are rejected as unpatentable over Walz in view of Bock.2
2. Claim 6 is rejected over Walz in view of Bock, as applied to claims 1-4, 7, 8, and 10
above, and further in view of Wagner.
Claims at issue
D. Claims 1-4, 6-8, and 10 are pending, with claims 1, 4, and 6 at issue.
1. Claim 1 is directed to a method of producing flexible fibers of superconducting
material3, comprising the steps:
a. melting a superconducting material in a furnace containing a heating space;
b. heating the melted superconducting material to a temperature above its melting
point to form a stream of melted superconducting material;
c. dropping the stream into a vertically extending barrel of a nozzle;
d. blowing a heated fiberizing gas downwardly through the barrel of the nozzle,
wherein
i. the fiberizing gas has been heated to 150-750EF;
ii. the fiberizing gas is blown at a rate sufficient to transform the
2 Claim 7 depends from claim 6, yet claim 6 is not included in this rejection.
3 The present specification is directed to high temperature superconductors based on copper oxides. See
the present specification, p. 2, para. 3, through p. 9, para. 3.
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