Appeal No. 2000-0075
Application 08/969,941
Before addressing the examiner's rejections based on
prior art, it is essential that the claimed subject matter be
fully understood. Accordingly, we initially direct our
attention to appellants’ independent claims 1 and 54 on appeal
in an attempt to derive an understanding of the scope and
content thereof.
Claim 1 sets forth a third means disposed at the second
station for forming an opening in a wall portion of the
canister and a fourth means disposed at the third station for
sequentially injecting gas under pressure into the canister
through the above-noted opening, and then depositing and
fusing a fusible body in the charging opening of the canister
to close the opening while maintaining the gas injected into
the canister under pressure. The last clause of claim 1 goes
on to set forth that the fourth means includes
means utilizing the force exerted by said gas under
pressure for urging a contact portion of said third means
into sealing engagement with said canister during the gas
injecting, fusible body depositing and fusible body
fusing, in closing said gas filling opening.
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