Appeal No. 1999-1899 Page 16
Application No. 08/932,090
basis of this claim alone. Accordingly, we sustain the
examiner's rejection of claims 2 and 4 through 15 under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as well as claim 1.
NEW GROUNDS OF REJECTION
Under the authority of 37 CFR § 1.196(b), this panel of
the Board introduces the following new grounds of rejection.
Claim 3 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being
anticipated by Heyl or Gueyrard. For the reasons noted above,
Heyl and Gueyrard both teach all of the limitations of claim
1, and the further recitation in claim 3, which depends from
claim 1, of "a plurality of secondary inlets disposed about a
periphery of said primary inlet", is satisfied by the
secondary openings/inlets at the periphery of Heyl's grate
(124) and by the openings/inlets at the periphery of
Gueyrard's safety grid (3) which surround the central primary
inlet portion.
Inasmuch as the basic thrust of our affirmance of the
35 U.S.C. ' 103 rejections of claim 1 (the 35 U.S.C. § 103
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