Appeal No. 1998-0093
Application No. 08/459,301
be may of fiber, all of the panels are made of aluminum (col.
1, ll. 64-67).
The door of Forrer's oven is insulated to assist in
keeping it as cool as possible (col. 2, ll. 43-46). Forrer
further explains that "[t]he only other place in the oven at
which I have found it expedient to use insulation is on the
under surface of the top wall 8 where I employ a bat of
insulation at 38 around the socket 39 for the upper heat lamp
40" (col. 2, ll. 48-51).
Malick's cooking oven likewise is of the infrared type.
See column 2, lines 22-25: "In contrast to conventional ovens
where the food is heated by hot air or long-wave infrared
radiation, the present invention heats the food by short-wave
infrared radiation." The infrared radiation is provided by
four, 200-watt incandescent bulbs in the preferred embodiment
depicted by Figures 1-6 and by a 30-watt lamp (presumably also
incandescent) in the simplified Figure 7 embodiment.
The oven shown in Malick's Figures 1 and 2, on which the
examiner relies (Answer at 6), is similar to Forrer's in that
it is provided with vents (i.e., 60-62) for allowing air to
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