Appeal No. 1998-1052
Application No. 08/683,600
subject matter of that base claim. Accordingly, the
circumstance that claim 23 properly recites the “air flow
apertures” as being part of the reflector plate does not cure
the deficiency of base claim 21 which improperly recites
pressurized air jets flowing through “the air flow apertures”
in the air distribution manifold. For this reason, we
likewise shall sustain the 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph,
rejection of claims 23 and 24.
In treating the standing 35 U.S.C. § 103 rejections of
claims 21-28 on the merits, infra, we interpret the term “the
air flow apertures” found in the third paragraph of claim 21
as “the multiple discharge ports.”
Rejection (b)
Claim 1 is directed to a dryer comprising a dryer head
defining an air distribution manifold having an inlet port for
receiving pressurized air and discharge port means facing the
substrate travel path, a radiant heat lamp assembly comprising
multiple heat lamps disposed within the dryer head between the
substrate travel path and the air distribution manifold, and
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