Appeal No. 1999-0615
Application No. 08/786,974
further consideration under 37 CFR § 1.142(b) as being
directed to a non-elected species.
Appellant's invention is directed to a backpack mounted
fire suppressant foam generation apparatus and to a method of
using such an apparatus for generating fire suppressant foam.
As seen in Figure 8 of the application drawings, the backpack
unit is designed to be carried on the back of a single
firefighting individual and to be used in wildland/urban
locations which do not have access to an adequate supply of
the traditional fire suppressant material, i.e., water.
Independent claims 1 and 12 are representative of the subject
matter on appeal and a copy of those claims, as reproduced
from the Appendix to appellant's brief, is attached to this
decision.
The prior art references relied upon by the examiner in
rejecting the appealed claims are:
Farison 3,337,195 Aug. 22,
1967
Stults 3,592,269 Jul. 13,
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