Appeal No. 1997-0793
Application 08/107,633
separator is separated in the dust separator into a
combustible gas stream, which passes through cooler 22, and a
hot particulate stream (18).
Step e: At least a part of the hot particulate stream
from the dust separator is applied to the carbonization
chamber by way of superheating chamber 24 and pipe 4 (col. 3,
lines 16-20; figure 1).4
Appellant argues that Roetheli does not indicate what the
combined stream is used for and that, therefore, the
disclosure of a combined stream has nothing to do with the
claimed subject matter (brief, page 8). This argument is not
well taken because the relevant question is whether the
applied prior art would have fairly suggested, to one of
ordinary skill in the art,
appellant’s recited combining and separating steps. As
discussed above, these steps would have been fairly suggested
to such a person by the applied prior art. Appellant further
4Appellant’s claim 1 does not require that the hot
particulates are fed directly to the reactor or that the hot
particulates which enter the reactor are in a stream which has
the same composition as that which exits the separator.
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