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Appeal No. 1998-1373
Application No. 08/377,473
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to an apparatus for filtering the particulate material
from bags that have been charged for further material handling. An understanding of the
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which appears in the
appendix to the appellant's Brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Heyl 4,889,452 Dec. 26, 1989
Clark 5,141,706 Aug. 25, 1992
Jelich et al. (Jelich) 5,348,572 Sep. 20, 1994
Hough 5,397,371 Mar. 14, 1995
(filed Dec. 16, 1993)
Claims 1-3, 7-13, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26 and 27 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Heyl in view of Clark.
Claims 4-6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Heyl
in view of Clark and Jelich.
Claims 22 and 25 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Heyl in view of Clark and Hough.1
1A rejection of claim 5 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, was withdrawn by the
examiner in the Answer.
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