Appeal No. 1998-0294
Application No. 08/318,726
art to make the examiner’s proposed changes.
It is our opinion that the combined teachings of the
Japanese reference and Schladitz fail to establish a prima
facie case of obviousness with regard to the subject matter
recited in claim 1, and we will not sustain the rejection.
Independent claim 8 also stands rejected on the basis of
the Japanese reference and Schladitz. It is drawn to a
humidifier having a plurality of hollow tubular bodies of heat
resistant and hydrophilic yarn with metal heating wires
disposed on the external surface, and further requires that
the hollow yarn bodies fluidly communicate with the water
tanks as to be constantly filed with water. This arrangement
is not present in the Japanese reference, where the yarn is
saturated with water but does not have a hollow interior
filled with water, or in Schladitz, where the body does not
have a hollow interior. Therefore, in addition to the
shortcomings of the two basic references with regard to
placing wires on the outer surface of
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