Appeal No. 2006-0472
Application No. 10/859,119
specification, page 1. Details of the appealed subject matter
are recited in representative claim 14 which is reproduced below:
14. A system for making yarns of bulked continuous
nylon filaments comprising:
a spinning head for melt-spinning a nylon material
to form multiple filaments thereof;
a draw zone downstream of said spin head for
drawing the melt-spun nylon filaments; and
a texturing unit downstream of the draw zone for
texturing the melt-spun, drawn nylon filaments; wherein
the texturing unit includes means for directing a
fluid jet onto the nylon filaments of the BCF at a
sufficiently low fluid jet velocity and at a
sufficiently high fluid jet temperature to impart an
alpha-crystalline content in the BCF of at least about
45% and to obtain a yarn skein shrinkage of less than
about 0.50 inch.
PRIOR ART
The sole prior art reference relied upon by the examiner in
support of the Section 102(b) rejection before us is:
Chuah 6,113,825 Sep. 5, 2000
REJECTIONS
The appealed claims stand rejected as follows:
1. Claims 14 through 16 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph,
as failing provide an enabling disclosure for the presently
claimed subject matter; and
2. Claims 14 through 16 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as anticipated
by the disclosure of Chuah.
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