Appeal No. 2001-2205
Application 09/228,987
fluids in the limb,” or that it includes a cooperating pressure
sensitive surface of loop material and a tab having a hook
surface which is “affixed to said strip for engaging said
pressure sensitive surface and maintaining it [the strip] in a
stretched, restricting position about a patient’s limb,” as set
forth in appellant’s claim 11.
If the abdominal binder of Hubbard were to be wrapped on a
patient’s limb as urged by the examiner, it appears to us that
the approximately thirteen inch long brushed pile material
section (28) would be wrapped about the limb first and then
covered by multiple wrappings of the thirty-two inch long elastic
panel section (16) and then by the three inch long hook-like
fastening section (24), with the end result being that the loop
material of section (28) would be entirely covered by several
layers of the elastic panel section wrapped thereon such that the
hook-like fastening section would have nothing to adhere to and
thereby create a force on the limb necessary to constrict its
size and to restrict swelling and pooling of fluids in the limb,
as in claim 11 on appeal. Thus, do we see that the abdominal wrap
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