Appeal No. 1998-0093
Application No. 08/459,301
Claims 1, 6, and 7 also stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 for obviousness over either one of Forrer and Malick in
view of Huie and Buckingham.
D. The rejection based on Huie in view of Moffat
Huie discloses a food warming cabinet for holding
previously cooked food near the preferred serving temperature
for prolonged periods of time (col. 1, ll. 10-13). The
chamber 14 defined by uninsulated aluminum cabinet 12 and two
transparent doors 16 is heated by two heat bulbs 38, which are
controlled by a rheostat 48 (col. 2, ll. 3-32).
Moffat discloses a food warming oven having laminated
insulating walls and a laminated insulating door provided with
a heat-sealing gasket 8a (Fig. 3) (p. 1, l. 120 to p. 2, l.
1). Rather than using heat lamps as sources of heat, as
required by claim 1, Moffat uses a plurality of electric
heating elements 12 to heat respective compartments 11 formed
by shelves 10 and uses heating elements 13 and 14 to heat the
top and bottom walls, respectively (p. 2, ll. 2-19). Moffat
indicates that "[i]n particular, but not exclusively, the
invention relates to a food heating apparatus in the form of a
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