Appeal No. 2007-0048 Page 10
Application No. 10/234,608
Claim 12 further defines the aerogel material of claim 11 as being in
granular form.
Martin discloses a body 20 (web) comprising aerogel 32 filled cells 22
(panels). The body can be enveloped in an impermeable membrane 34, 36 to
allow a vacuum to be created within the aerogel to enhance its thermal
resistance. (See column 2, lines 9-12; column 3 lines 37-38 and 55-57; and,
column 3, line 64 to column 4, line 6.) Martin explains that a multiplicity of
shapes comprising said cells can be cut from the body (column 5, lines 10-29).
According to Martin, the cells may be constructed of gas and liquid impermeable
materials, paper, glass, ceramics, metals, etc. (column 3, lines 49-54). In
teaching a vacuum-insulated body, from which multiple shapes comprising
vacuum insulated aerogel -filled cells can be cut, Martin discloses a web
comprising a plurality of aerogel-filled vacuum insulated panels which can be cut
into individual units as claimed.
The body (web) disclosed in Martin differs from the claimed web only in
that it does not contain “at least one perforation between one or more of such
panels allowing for separation of one or more aerogel-filled vacuum insulated
panels from each other” (claim 11). Rather than employing a perforation to tear
off individual cells, Martin simply cuts the cells (panels) from the body (web) into
a multiplicity of individual forms and shapes.
Gray discloses a carton for assembling a container 10 comprising
comprising a structural web member 90 which includes a perforated line 96 “so
that it may be easily torn into halves” (column 3, lines 28-34). While Gray applies
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