Appeal No. 2001-0078
Application No. 08/892,131
dispensed. Further, the flexible pouch is surrounded by an
annular or perimetrical frame which depends from a chassis and
serves to protect the pouch from impact and shock loads.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the invention and reads as
follows:
1. In a liquid containment and dispensing device
having a rigid, generally cup-shaped outer shell with an
open end and an opposed pair of sidewalls, each of the
opposed pair of sidewalls having a longitudinally extending
recess therein, a chassis secured to the open end of the
shell, the chassis having a pumping mechanism with a liquid
outlet therefrom the chassis further having a planar portion
extending transversely of the open end of the shell, a
flexible pouch having an open end and a closed end, the
closed end being positioned within the shell, the chassis
further having an annular frame, extending transversely from
the planar portion, the frame surrounding the flexible pouch
and having an opposed pair of side members with a rib
portion extending outwardly from each of said side members,
characterized in that each of said opposed pair of side
members is adjacent one of the sidewalls of the outer shell,
the rib portion of each of said opposed pair of side members
extending into one of the recesses in the sidewall of the
shell.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:
Barinaga 5,721,576 Feb. 24, 1998
(filed Dec. 04, 1995)
Clark et al. (Clark) 5,734,401 Mar. 31, 1998
(filed Dec. 04, 1995)
Claims 1-6, 13, 15, and 16 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Clark in view of Barinaga.
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