Appeal No. 2004-0572
Application 09/849,315
sections lateral to the pallet platform area thereby to
facilitate transportation on said pallets for storing and
recalling the pallets from designated storage areas of confined
space.
24. The method of bulk storage in outdoor sites of
discarded tire rubber without accumulation of water comprising
the steps of:
cutting rubber portions of reclaimed tire carcasses in
the format into substantially constant thickness flat treaded
strips excluding sidewalls, and
stacking the flat strips on pallets in a plurality of
abutting rubber-to-rubber contact stacks of the treaded strips
interlocked in a frictional format for withstanding lateral
movement when travelling upon a loading platform of a pallet
transported by a fork lift truck with a rubber-to-rubber contact
configuration precluding accumulation of water when stored on the
pallets in bulk storage at outdoor locations.
The references set forth below are relied upon by the
examiner as evidence of obviousness:
Miller 5,472,750 Dec. 5, 1995
Pignataro 5,834,083 Nov. 10, 1998
Claims 1, 2, 9-11, 13-15 and 24 are rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Miller in view of
Pignataro.
On page 7 of the Brief, the appellant indicates that
the appealed claims are grouped separately. Therefore, in
assessing the merits of the rejection before us, we will
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