Appeal No. 2002-2062 Page 5
Application No. 09/207,631
curable compound within and closest to the front side of the bag
and the bottom wall surface of the mold is cured.
The examiner relies on Degler and Brogan in an attempt to
make up for the extensive deficiencies in the teachings of
Tourniaire. Rather than repeating the examiner’s explanation
here or giving a shortened version thereof, we refer to pages 3-9
of the answer.
Degler discloses making a breast prosthesis using a mold
wherein a stretched first film is placed on a female mold and
heated and conformed to the mold shape, the first film is removed
from the mold, a specially shaped insert is inserted in the
female mold, the previously contoured first film is placed over
the insert, the female mold is filled with resin up to an edge
thereof, a second film is employed to cover the resin, the first
and second films are welded together along overlapping edges, the
insert is removed, a male mold is used to permanently shape the
second film, the resin is cured. A vacuum is disclosed as being
applied during various steps including the curing step with the
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