Appeal No. 1997-3024
Application 08/325,476
claim 1 indicate that the claim is directed to “[c]oating
equipment with an extrusion coating head disposed between run
guide means spaced a distance apart and facing a continuously
running support retained by said run guide means” (emphasis
added). Thus, in addition to stating that the claimed
“equipment” includes an extrusion coating head and run guide
means, lines 1-3 also state that the coating head “faces” the
continuously running support and that the continuously running
support is “retained by” the run guide means. From our
perspective, the recitation of the relationship between the
coating head and the continuously running support (i.e., the
coating head “facing” the support) and the recitation of the
relationship between the continuously running support and the
run guide means (i.e., the support being “retained by” the run
guide means) amounts to a positive recitation of the
continuously running support in conjunction with the coating
equipment elements set forth elsewhere in claim 1. This being
the case, we believe an artisan could indeed calculate the
distance between the support and the regulation plates, as
called for within the body of claim 1, since both the support
and the regulation plates are positively recited in the claim.
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