Appeal No. 2005-0841
Application No. 08/230,083
The Office Action of May 17, 1991 has been given
careful consideration. In view thereof, applicant has
canceled claims 2 and 12 from further consideration and
rewritten them in independent form as new claims 15 and
16. The remaining claims have been made dependent on
claims 15 or 16 and various minor corrections made
thereto.
The subject amendment was discussed in its current
form with. . .Examiner Joyce on September 10, 1991. At
that time, it was felt that all formal matters with
respect to the above claims had been corrected and that
the claims as now presented were patentable over all of
the prior art of record.
It is believed that this amendment places the
application in condition for allowance and early notice to
that effect is respectfully requested.
41. A telephonic interview took place on November 8,
1991.
42. During the interview, applicant agreed to cancel
claim 1 and amendments to claims 4 and 15 were agreed to, all as
shown in Appendix 4 of this opinion.
43. In dependent claim 4, "(13) of" was deleted.
44. In independent claim 15, "element" was inserted
after "valve".
45. The original application was then allowed.
46. Consistent with Office practice, the claims were
re-numbered in the course of preparing the original application
for issue, all as follows:
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