Appeal No. 1999-0546
Application No. 08/724,542
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a process for
removal of sand cores from cast parts (specification, p. 1).
A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix
to the appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Crafton et al. (Crafton) 5,294,094 Mar. 15,
1994
Bonnemasou et al.(Bonnemasou) 5,423,370 Jun. 13,
1995
Claims 1 through 17 and 25 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
' 103 as being unpatentable over Bonnemasou in view of
Crafton.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and the appellants regarding the above-noted
rejections, we make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper
No. 9, mailed September 25, 1998) for the examiner's complete
reasoning in support of the rejections, and to the appellants'
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