Appeal No. 1997-4002
Application 08/459,880
particularly vulnerable to puncture in the packaging of
certain cuts of bone-in meat. Accordingly, an objective of
appellants’ invention is to provide a patch bag wherein the
patch “may fold around the edge of the
bag in [its] lay flat position” (specification, page 5) to
provide increased protection against puncture at this
location. Appellants disclose on pages 8-10 of the
specification a method of making a patch bag having a patch
that folds around an edge of the bag. This method may be 4
used to make end-seal patch bags (see Figure 3) wherein the
end of the bag is sealed and a patch 8 folds around a side
edge of the bag. The disclosed method may also be used to
make side-seal bags (see Figure 4) where the sides of the bag
are sealed and a patch 8 folds around a bottom end of the bag.
The appealed claims of the present application are directed to
a side-seal bag, i.e., a bag of the type illustrated in Figure
4. Independent claim 25, a copy of which is found in an
4Said method is the subject of appellants’ U.S. Patent
5,540,646, based on application 08/407,793, a division of
application 08/050,942. The ‘942 application is the
grandparent of the present application.
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