Appeal No. 1999-2544 Page 14
Application No. 08/796,513
For the foregoing reasons we reverse the examiner's
rejection of claims 1 and 12 as being anticipated by Jackson.
The 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) rejection of
claims 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 through 15 and 17
---Claims 1 and 12---
As noted above, Jackson does not teach electrical heating
means for electrically heating the fibers on their outer
circumferential surface as recited in claim 1 on appeal and
does not teach or suggest the heating means of claim 12 on
appeal.
Zwaan teaches a water compartment (30) (Fig. 7)
constructed from microporous sheet material (40) which is
permeable to water vapor but substantially impermeable to
liquid water with a heating element (50) inside of the sheet
material (40) (pages 4-5). According to Zwaan's disclosure,
electrical contacts (46) are connected to a preferred heating
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