Appeal NO. 1996-3683
Application 08/207,393
This is an appeal from the examiner's refusal to allow
claims 19 through 40, which are all the claims pending in the
instant application. Claim 22, which depends from a finally
rejected claim, is not separately rejected but has not been
allowed.
THE INVENTION
The appealed subject matter is directed to a fiber
product made from discontinuous fibers having solid particles
of super absorbent material adhered to the discontinuous
fibers. The super absorbent material adhere to a binder
coating on at least a portion of the fibers. The binders
contain at least three percent free carboxyl groups.
According to appellants, binders having free carboxyl groups
and used to coat the fibers produce especially strong adhesion
of the super absorbent particles and the fibers (page 9, lines
15 through 18 of the specification).
Claim 21 is believed to be adequately representative of
the appealed subject matter and is reproduced below for a more
facile understanding of the claimed subject matter.
Claim 21. A fiber product which comprises
discontinuous fibers, a binder which coats at least
a portion of the fibers, the binder containing
greater than three percent free carboxyl groups,
solid particles of super absorbent material adhered
to the fibers by the free carboxyl group containing
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