Appeal No. 1999-0316
Application 08/329,124
b) claim 13 as being unpatentable over Hajicek in view of
Morissette and Noda;
c) claim 32 as being unpatentable over Hajicek in view of
Spethmann; and
d) claims 33 and 34 as being unpatentable over Hajicek in
view of Spethmann and Besik.
Reference is made to the appellants’ second substitute
brief (Paper No. 20) and to the examiner’s supplemental answer
(Paper No. 24) for the respective positions of the appellants
and the examiner regarding the merits of these rejections.
Hajicek, the examiner’s primary reference, discloses a
regenerative heat and humidity exchanging apparatus which can
be employed to ventilate a building. The apparatus 10
includes a housing 12 defining two parallel air flow passages
26, 28, fans 54, 62 for blowing fresh air through passage 26
and exhaust air through passage 28 in opposite directions, and
a rotating exchanger wheel comprising air-pervious media disks
110 which function to transfer heat and moisture from the
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