Appeal No. 2001-1355
Application No. 09/110,348
for cooling through a heat exchanger” (specification, page 1).
Representative claim 1 reads as follows:
1. Apparatus for cooling an area comprising in
combination:
housing means for holding a quantity of liquid cooling
medium including an insulated wall, a bottom wall, and a rim;
a support wall disposed on the rim of the housing means
and removable for adding the liquid cooling medium to the
housing;
a liquid cooling medium in the housing means below the
support wall;
a heat exchanger disposed on the support wall above the
liquid cooling medium;
pump means for pumping the liquid cooling medium to the
heat exchanger;
means for circulating air through the heat exchanger and
to the area to be cooled; and
a top closing the housing means and disposed on the
support wall and the housing means and enclosing the heat
exchanger and the means for circulating air, and removable
with the support wall for adding the liquid cooling medium to
the housing.
THE PRIOR ART
The references relied on by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Karge 2,198,822 Apr. 30, 1940
MacCracken 2,885,189 May 5, 1959
Little 4,821,354 Apr. 18, 1989
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