Appeal No. 2001-0180
Application No. 08/887,421
application, stand withdrawn from consideration pursuant to 37
CFR § 1.142(b).
THE INVENTION
The subject matter on appeal relates to a vehicle flood
rescue raft. Claim 17 is representative and reads as follows:
17. A vehicle flood rescue raft (VFRR) comprising in
combination:
flexible means forming at least one hermetically sealed
air chamber, said at least one hermetically sealed air chamber
having front and rear ends [and] a capacity sufficient to
float a vehicle carried thereby in flood waters,
valve means for filling said at least one hermetically
sealed air chamber with air such that in non-flood water
condition, the means forming at least one hermetically sealed
air chamber engages a vehicle positioned thereover and the
ground and in flood water conditions said vehicle is floated
on said raft and grommet means at said front and rear ends for
positioning said raft under a vehicle and/or tethering the
front and rear ends of said raft to a stationary object in
flood waters.
THE PRIOR ART
The items relied on by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Curcio 3,011,184 Dec. 5, 1961
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