Appeal No. 1997-1888 Page 11
Application No. 08/221,467
With this as background, we analyze the prior art applied
by the examiner in the rejection of the claims on appeal.
Claims 39 and 40, the only independent claims subject to
this rejection, are quite similar except that claim 40 recites
a reinforcing material body having a net arrangement instead
of a reinforcing yarn as recited in claim 39. Claim 39 is
representative and reads as follows:
39. An endless belt for use in a dewatering press to remove
water from a wet web which comprises an endless elastic body
layer, a fibrous material substantially, uniformly disposed
throughout said endless elastic body layer and a reinforcing
yarn further disposed within said elastic body layer, the belt
having an inner and outer edge with respect to a radial
direction and the yarn being arranged inside in the radial
direction of said elastic body layer and at least a portion of
the yarn being adjacent to the inner edge of the belt.
Thus, claims 39 and 40 are directed to an endless elastic belt
having fibrous material substantially, uniformly disposed
throughout and a reinforcing yarn (claim 39), or a reinforcing
material body (claim 40), disposed adjacent to the inner edge
of the belt.
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