Appeal No. 1999-0955
Application No. 08/687,872
contoured shape . . . and an internally disposed bottom
surface which, during use, is in contact with said composition
over a major portion of said bottom surface . . . .”
Claim 19, the only other independent claim, calls for an
apparatus for dispensing a viscous antiperspirant or deodorant
composition including, inter alia, an applicator head
comprising “a rigid, non-deformable, sintered polyolefin
porous dome with an externally disposed upper surface and an
internally disposed bottom surface which, during use, is in
contact with said viscous composition over a major portion of
said bottom surface.”
We observe that, in the embodiment illustrated in Figure
2, Hall discloses a device for dispensing “wax shoe polish”
(p. 2, l. 26) or “fluid wax” (id. at l. 39) including a tube 9
closed
at one end by a cap 11 and at the other end by a screw
threaded cap 10. An apertured member 16 and a polishing pad
17 of opened-cell polyurethane foam (id. at ll. 15-17) are
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