Appeal No. 1998-1052
Application No. 08/683,600
With reference once again to Figure 6 of Anderson, we
find,
as did the examiner, that the portion of Anderson’s dryer
between fan 6 and the tops of reflectors 15’ constitutes an
“air distribution manifold,” said manifold having an “inlet
port” directly below the fan and “multiple discharge ports” in
the form of entrance ways 76’ defined by flanges 72’, 73’ that
are oriented for directing pressurized jets of air
(denominated “Gas Flow” in Figure 6) toward the travel path of
the web. Thus, Anderson teaches an air distribution manifold
as claimed. Moreover, the pressurized air flowing from the
air discharge ports 76’ of Anderson’s air distribution
manifold is directed to air flow apertures 35’ where it exits
to form an “air blanket,” as broadly claimed. As to the
claimed radiant heat lamp assembly, we note that appellants
have not specifically challenged the examiner’s position that
it would have been obvious to provide a plurality of
Anderson’s lamps 12’ in an assembly to thereby arrive at a
radiant heat assembly “including multiple [radiant] heat
lamps” as claimed. In any event, we note that the ends of
Anderson’s lamps 12’ are mounted in lamp holders 11 (see
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