Appeal No. 1997-2251
Application 8/251,385
part and the cap is in the other” (answer, page 4) appears to
be factually incorrect.
Smirne (col. 3, lines 46-56; figure 2) and Funck (pages
9-10; figures 8 and 9), disclose injection molding shoe soles
using a process wherein the molded part is removed from the
mold with the assistance of an ejector pin. Funck also
discloses (page 9) using compressed air when removing the part
from the mold.
The examiner argues that it would have been obvious to
one of ordinary skill in the art in view of either Smirne or
Funck to retain a portion of Miller’s cap in an upper mold
part to aid in ejection by lifting it from the mold surface
(answer, page 5). Miller, however, removes his article from
the mold by unscrewing it from a core pin (74) (col. 3, lines
16-17). The examiner has not explained, and it is not
apparent, why the applied references would have led one of
ordinary skill in the art to separate Miller’s mold parts such
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