Appeal No. 1998-2242
Application No. 08/430,937
a distillation or flash column at an oil refinery.
Claim 15, reproduced below, is further illustrative of
the claimed subject matter.
15. A method of providing support to a tray comprised of
one or more tray panels, said method comprising providing each
said tray panel with equidistantly spaced stiffeners located
perpendicular to and connected to the bottom surface of said
tray panel and positioned in a manner that said stiffeners
cooperate to form a continuous and orthogonal grill under said
tray.
The references listed below have been relied upon by the
examiner to support rejections under sections 102 and 103:
Kohn 2,664,280 Dec. 29,
1953
Thrift 3,056,592 Oct. 2, 1962
DiNicolantonio et al. 4,133,852 Jan. 9, 1979
(DiNicolantonio)
Matsumoto et al. 5,431,366 Jul. 11, 1995
(Matsumoto) (filed Apr. 28, 1994)
The admitted prior art as set forth on pages 5 through 6 of
the instant specification and Figure 2.
THE REJECTIONS
Claim 4 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second
paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly
point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which
appellant regards as the invention.
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