Appeal No. 2005-1435
Application No. 09/906,564
APPEALED SUBJECT MATTER
Claims 1, 3, 4 and 8 are representative of the subject
matter on appeal and read as follows1:
1. A process for utilizing purged resin discharged
from an injection molding machine comprising the steps of:
discharging said purged resin through a port located
spaced above a collecting surface so that streams of
discharged resin collect in a puddled mass on said surface;
allowing cooling and solidification of said discharged
resin;
preparing said solidified resinous mass for use as a
decorative article; and
selling said decorative article.
3. The method according to claim 1 wherein said
preparing step includes the step of trimming projecting
appendages from said solidified mass.
4. The method according to claim 1 wherein said step
includes the step of reheating at least a portion of said
solidified resinous mass and reshaping said reheated
portion.
8. A method of constructing a decorative article
comprising the steps of:
discharging a stream of molten resin out of a port
elevated above a collecting surface while allowing said
resin stream to descend down onto a said collecting surface
to form a randomly contoured, irregular puddled resinous
mass;
1 We limit our consideration to only those claims which have
been separately argued in the Brief in accordance with 37 CFR
§ 41.37(c)(1)(vii)(2004).
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