Appeal No. 1999-0615
Application No. 08/786,974
arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given
careful consideration to appellant's specification and claims,
to the applied prior art references, and to the respective
positions articulated by appellant and the examiner. As a
consequence of our review, we have made the determinations
which follow.
Like appellant, we note that Good discloses (e.g., in
Figs. 1, 2, 16 and 17) a portable fire extinguisher in the
form of what the patentee describes as "a water tank adapted
to be worn on the back of a fireman, a hand-held gun that
includes a discharge nozzle and which is connected to the
water tank by a flexible hose, and a gas pressure-operated
pump located between the water tank and the nozzle of the
hand-held gun, for pumping water from the backpack tank and
discharging it at high pressure through the nozzle" (col. 2,
lines 10-18). In column 2, lines 43-45, it is further noted
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