Appeal No. 2004-1897
Application No. 09/455,664
with a frame and a scale collector coupled to the frame, with the
scale collector comprising a block of compressed mesh material
different from the first mesh material.
The relevant patent to O'Flynn teaches a filter plate (Figs.
6 through 7) with polyester mesh filter material having a mesh
count of 120 openings per square inch covering apertures 34
(column 2, lines 51 through 61). Further, this patent teaches a
water treatment cartridge mounted on the filter plate and having
a compartment 42 for holding a quantity of water treatment media
to help remove color, odor, and bad taste from water (activated
carbon or ion exchange resin) and mesh covered apertures 49 which
operate to hold the water treatment media within the compartment
42 while at the same time allowing water to flow through the
compartment.
We do not share the examiner's view (final rejection, page 3
and answer, page 5) that the mesh (only depicted, and not
verbally described) covering the apertures 49 in the water
treatment cartridge of O'Flynn is a scale collector comprising a
block of compressed mesh material different from the first mesh
material covering apertures 34, as now claimed. As indicated,
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