Appeal No. 2002-2136 Page 2
Application No. 09/761,077
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a plastic bag for use in making bank deposits
(specification, page 1). Claim 2, the sole claim pending in this application, reads as
follows (with paragraph separation added to facilitate discussion infra):
2. An article of manufacture for making a manual after
banking hours bank deposit as a substitution for a mail
deposit vulnerable to loss during transit, said article of
manufacture being in the specific form of embodied
improvements in a bag of plastic material and of a type
consisting of a rear panel having a front panel folded
thereover to a selected extent delineating an uncovered
upper strip along a top of said rear panel and having
opposite heat sealed sides, said improvements comprising a
vertically oriented bar seal of a selected width at a selected
location intermediate said opposite sealed sides delineating
on one side of said bar seal a first bag compartment having
an opening thereinto and on an opposite side thereof a
second bag compartment having an opening thereinto, a
check bank deposit inserted into said first bag compartment
and a cash bank deposit inserted into said second bag
compartment, a line of perforations within said bar seal for
use in separating said first and second bag compartments
from each other, a horizontally oriented adhesive deposit
along a bottom of said openings into said first and second
bag compartments having in overlying relation a cooperating
removable strip so as to expose said adhesive deposit and
to adhesively hold said uncovered upper strip when in a
folded-down relation over said openings into said first and
second bag compartments to serve as closures for said bag
compartments, a horizontally oriented line of perforations
adjacent an upper edge of said adhesive deposit so as to
delineate a removable length portion of said upper strip,
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