Appeal No. 2002-0502
Application 08/853,425
THE INVENTION
The appellant’s claimed invention is directed toward an
absorbent barrier sheet and a method for making it. Claim 8,
which claims the absorbent barrier sheet, is illustrative:
8. An absorbent barrier sheet comprising:
an integral fabric web having a generally hydrophobic upper
portion at the top of the sheet, the fabric web having a lower
fluid-retaining portion in wicking communication with the upper
portion whereby the top of the sheet tends towards dry, the lower
fluid-retaining portion including a lower surface; and
a barrier material intimately connected to substantially the
entire lower surface of the fabric web lower portion whereby the
bottom of the sheet tends to be dry.
THE REFERENCES
Whyte 3,881,491 May 6, 1975
Korpman 4,886,511 Dec. 12, 1989
Heiman 5,290,269 Mar. 1, 1994
Osborn, III 5,383,869 Jan. 24, 1995
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 1-22 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Heiman in view of Osborn, Korpman or Whyte.
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