Appeal No. 1999-1332
Application No. 08/591,857
frame side plates 58 and 60 adhesively attached thereto
(column 4, lines 6-9) is then immersed in the adhesive 48 and
when the adhesive hardens, the tapes are removed, leaving the
pleated edge of the filter core encapsulated in the adhesive
and the end plate 24 secured to the core subassembly (column
4, lines 24-28). The unit is then inverted and end plate 66
is secured to the core subassembly in the same manner (column
4, lines 28-36). In the completed air filter, the notched
ends of the side plates 58 and 60 receive the strips of the
end plates (column 4, lines 15-20; Figure 5).
Lippold, the tertiary reference in each of the
rejections, is mentioned in appellants’ specification (page 7,
lines 17-18) and is representative of the type of
dimensionally stable filter pack that may be used in the
practice of the present invention. Lippold contains no
details concerning the frame of a cassette filter utilizing
the filter pack disclosed therein.
Considering first the standing rejection of claim 1, the
examiner concedes (answer, page 4) that Allan does not meet
the requirements of the third paragraph of claim 1 regarding
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