Appeal No. 1998-2416
Application 08/586,807
Nos. 7 and 12) for the respective positions of the appellants
and the examiner with regard to the merits of these
rejections.
DISCUSSION
I. Claim 16
On page 8 in their brief, the appellants request that
claim 16 be deleted from the appeal because it is a duplicate
of allowed claim 30. In accordance with this request, the
appeal as to claim 16 is hereby dismissed.
II. Claims 3, 4, 6, 7, 21 and 22
Todd, the examiner’s primary reference, discloses a
buffing and polishing system that utilizes refrigerated air to
(1) prevent or limit the temperature rise incident to the
buffing operation and (2) cool the articles being buffed below
room temperature so that normally soft articles are
sufficiently hardened to permit buffing (see page 1, column 1,
lines 29 through 42). As shown in Figure 1, the system
generally includes a drier/humidifier unit 26 and a
refrigerator unit 23 for pre-conditioning the air, and a buff
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