Appeal No. 2002-1643 Page 9
Application No. 09/140,700
Claims 24 and 29
Independent claim 24 reads as follows:
A cleaning device comprising
a plastic bag having at least one side-wall,
said side-wall comprising at least three layers, one made of metal and the
other two made of a flexible plastic materials, said flexible plastic material
forming the outside and inside of said side wall,
a plurality of industrial cleaning wipers contained in said bag, said wipers
being absorbent and having a cleaning liquid absorbed in them,
said bag having an elongated opening and a slide fastener for closing said
opening, said slide fastener being made of plastic strips sealed to the bag
material at the edges of said opening, and a slider,
the amount of said liquid being from an amount sufficient to moisten all of
said wipers to an amount exceeding that needed to saturate all of said wipers,
in which said liquid is selected from the group consisting of isopropyl
alcohol, MPK, MEK, acetone, naphtha, aromatic hydrocarbons, said plastic
materials being resistant to deterioration due to contact with said solvents.
In the rejection of independent claim 24 (answer, pp. 4-5), the examiner
(1) determined that Murphy includes a plastic bag containing at least one and having a
plurality of cleaning applicators (figure 4) which are absorbent and are saturated with
cleaning liquid (column 1, lines 47-51); an elongated opening (13) in the bag; walls
consisting of a laminate aluminum film having thermoplastic coating and the broad
teaching of providing a polyethylene on the interior wall of the dispenser (column 3,
lines 3-13); and a slide fastener made of continuous plastic strips (7,8);
(2) ascertained that the dispenser disclosed by Murphy includes all the claimed features
except the slide fastener does not include a slider;
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