Appeal No. 1997-3267
Application 08/324,386
the final rejection in a paper filed May 6, 1996 (Paper No. 25).
Claims 1 through 3 have been canceled.
Appellant’s invention pertains to a filtering device
and method using a high pressure chamber for separating liquid
and solid material from a mixture wherein a component of the
mixture can pass into a gaseous phase at ambient temperature and
atmospheric pressure. By placing the mixture being separated
under a higher pressure than the lowest evaporation pressure of
any of the mixture’s components, no component of the mixture can
pass to the gaseous phase. Independent claims 4, 7 and 10 are
representative of the subject matter on appeal and copies of
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these claims, as reproduced from the Appendix of appellant’s
amendment after final (Paper No. 25, filed May 6, 1996), are
attached to this decision.
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