Appeal No. 1998-0510
Application 08/742,519
figure 1 of Wengen discloses a splice insulating system
including a flexible container 34 coupled to an inlet opening
and that Hickinbotham discloses an apparatus having a chamber
that can be pressurized to force liquid within the chamber to
be expelled via a tube to a plastic bag 50. The Examiner
concludes that it would have been obvious "to include the
container of Wengen on the outlet port of DeCarlo et al. as
taught by Hickinbotham since DeCarlo et al. would have been
drawn to these references for the beneficial feature of
preventing the exiting encapsulant from dripping on the
enclosure" (FR4). The Examiner also concludes that it would
have been obvious to make such a container on the outlet port
from light transmissive material as taught by Patel "since
this will enable observing the point at which liquid flows
into the container, and when the container is full" (FR4).
Appellants argue that "the Wengen container is sized and
shaped to deliver potting material to the inlet opening of the
casing structure, not to receive exiting potting material from
an outlet opening thereof" (Br5).
This is true. Figure 1 of Wengen relied on by the
Examiner does not even have a separate outlet port.
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