Appeal No. 1997-0068
Application 07/923,278
manufactured”; and claim 43 recites an apparatus for
manufacturing a three-dimensional object comprising, inter
alia, a first dispenser for dispensing a layer of a first
material on a substantially planar target surface “at selected
locations of said substantially planar first target surface,
said selected locations corresponding to a first cross-section
of an object.”
The examiner submits that these dispenser and dispensing
device limitations are met by Pomerantz’s resin applicator
540.
As indicated above, the Pomerantz resin applicator 540 is
operable to dispense a layer of resin onto a target/support
surface whereby portions or locations of the resin layer
corresponding to a cross-section or slice of the object being
manufactured are hardened and portions or locations of the
resin layer not corresponding to the cross-section or slice of
the object are removed. Hence, the Pomerantz resin applicator
540 does not meet the limitations in claims 24, 30 and 34
requiring the first dispenser or controlled dispensing device
to be operable to dispense a layer of first material at “only”
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