Appeal No. 1998-2119 Application No. 08/343,965 and 18-20 is dismissed. This leaves for our consideration on appeal only claims 1-9, 13-15 and 17 as amended subsequent to the final rejection. 1 Appellant’s invention relates to a method of fabricating a reinforced foil coating material with a low frictional coefficient including contacting an expanded metal sheet (2) and at least one polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) strip (1 or 3) to form a stack, calendering the stack to at least partially crush the expanded-metal sheet, and then heating the calendered stack to sinter the PTFE strip, thereby forming the foil-type material. During the calendering step, pressure greater than 200 kg/cm , and preferably approximately 5002 kg/cm , is applied. A copy of representative independent2 1While the amendments filed by appellant on December 30, 1996 (Paper No. 12) and on April 28, 1997 (Paper No. 17) have been approved for entry by the examiner (see Paper Nos. 13 and 18), they have not as of yet been properly clerically entered. During any further prosecution of this application before the examiner, this oversight should be corrected. In addition, in claims 14, 15 and 17 the spelling of calendering should be corrected. 3Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007