Appeal No. 1996-3433
Application No. 08/198,955
and 12 were canceled subsequent to the final Office action
dated April 6, 1995, Paper No. 9.
Claim 8 is representative of the subject matter on appeal
and reads as follows:
8. An improved processing apparatus, comprising a burner
part and a separate processing part extending and
interconnected substantially rectilinearly so that said burner
part discharges into said processing part, said burner part
comprising an elongate gas flow conduit having an open inflow
end and an open outflow end which is arranged to discharge gas
into said processing part and said processing part comprising
a gas flow conduit having an open inflow end; an annular flow
manifold for an input gas adjacent to and surrounding the
outflow end portion of said gas flow conduit of the burner
part, said annular flow manifold and said gas flow conduit of
the burner part defining with said open inflow end of the gas
flow conduit of the processing part and therebetween a single,
continuous, annular slot at said open inflow end of said
processing part for the discharge of said input gas into the
flow of gas discharging into said processing part from said
outflow end of said gas flow conduit of said burner part, said
slot being the sole flow communication between said manifold
and said gas flow conduit of said processing part and
constituting spacing between said outflow end of said gas flow
conduit of the burner part and said open inflow end of the gas
flow conduit of said processing part; structural means
securing said burner part and said processing part together
at, but outside of, said slot substantially without inhibiting
flow of gas through said slot, whereby a substantially
continuous, annular curtain of said inflow gas is directed
into said flow of gas passing from said gas flow conduit of
said burner part into said gas flow conduit of said processing
part; means for flowing gas into the inflow end of said gas
flow conduit of the burner part; means for flowing an input
gas into said annular flow manifold; means for flowing a fuel
gas into said gas flow conduit of the burner part; and
means for igniting the flowing gas for burning within said
processing part of the apparatus.
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