DETAILED ACTION
Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Election/Restrictions
Applicant’s election without traverse of Species A (Figs. 3A-3C) in the reply filed on 2025 November 25 is acknowledged.
Claims 5-6, 8-14, 18, and 20 are withdrawn from further consideration pursuant to 37 CFR 1.142(b) as being drawn to a nonelected species, there being no allowable generic or linking claim.
Note – claim 6 is withdrawn because it depends from withdrawn claim 5, but the subject matter of claim 6 is generic. In an effort to facilitate compact prosecution, a prior art rejection of claim 6 is provided as if it depends from claim 1.
Drawings
The drawings are objected to under 37 CFR 1.83(a). The drawings must show every feature of the invention specified in the claims.
Therefore, the compressor of claim 7 must be shown or the feature(s) canceled from the claim(s).
No new matter should be entered.
Corrected drawing sheets in compliance with 37 CFR 1.121(d) are required in reply to the Office action to avoid abandonment of the application. Any amended replacement drawing sheet should include all of the figures appearing on the immediate prior version of the sheet, even if only one figure is being amended. The figure or figure number of an amended drawing should not be labeled as “amended.” If a drawing figure is to be canceled, the appropriate figure must be removed from the replacement sheet, and where necessary, the remaining figures must be renumbered and appropriate changes made to the brief description of the several views of the drawings for consistency. Additional replacement sheets may be necessary to show the renumbering of the remaining figures. Each drawing sheet submitted after the filing date of an application must be labeled in the top margin as either “Replacement Sheet” or “New Sheet” pursuant to 37 CFR 1.121(d). If the changes are not accepted by the examiner, the applicant will be notified and informed of any required corrective action in the next Office action. The objection to the drawings will not be held in abeyance.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claims 1-4, 6-7, 15-17, and 19 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by US 4,742,939 A (herein “Galockin”).
Regarding claim 1. Galockin discloses a cooling system (Fig. 1) for cooling a food edible solution, the cooling system comprising:
a first solution tank (34) configured for receiving a cooling fluid therein;
a second solution tank (14) configured for receiving a food edible solution therein, wherein the second solution tank is disposed within the first solution tank;
a cooling fluid tube coiled around the second solution tank (48), wherein the cooling fluid tube is coiled along a height direction of the second solution tank;
a food edible solution tube coiled around the second solution tank (50) ending with a tank inlet (112), wherein the food edible solution tube is configured for receiving the food edible solution therein and configured for transporting the food edible solution to an interior portion of the second solution tank via the tank inlet (water transported from 110, through 50, and into 14 via 112).
Regarding claim 2. Galockin discloses the cooling system of claim 1, wherein the food edible solution tube further comprises a receiving inlet configured to receive the food edible solution from outside the first solution tank (110 coupled to inlet of 50).
Regarding claim 3. Galockin discloses the cooling system of claim 1, wherein the tank inlet is configured to be at an angle (shown in Fig. 1 and 112), such that, the food edible solution exits the tank inlet at the same angle of the tank inlet (inherent that fluid would exit tube at the angle of the tube).
Regarding claim 4. Galockin discloses the cooling system of claim 3, which is capable of being used with a food edible solution that is configured to create a vortex configuration causing the food edible solution to stir within the second solution tank (intended use).
Regarding claim 6. Galockin discloses the cooling system of claim 1, wherein the cooling fluid is configured to be contained within a gap defined by a distance between the first solution tank and the second solution tank (Fig. 1 – cooling fluid in 48 is contained in the gap between the first and second tanks).
Regarding claim 7. Galockin discloses the cooling system of claim 1, wherein the cooling system further comprises a compressor configured to pump the cooling fluid through the cooling fluid tube (col. 7, ll. 18-21).
Regarding claim 15. Galockin discloses the cooling system of claim 1, wherein a temperature of the food edible solution can be decreased while flowing through a receiving inlet to the tank inlet of the food edible solution tube (reduced by the refrigerant flowing through the coolant line).
Regarding claim 16. Galockin discloses the cooling system of claim 15, which is capable of the rate of decreasing temperature of the food edible solution at a rate to inhibit microbial and/or bacteria growth in the food edible solution (intended use – based on the relative temperatures of fluids used in the system).
Regarding claim 17. Galockin discloses the cooling system of claim 1, wherein the cooling system further comprises a food edible solution outlet (114) configured to release the food edible solution from the second solution tank (arrow shown in Fig. 1).
Regarding claim 19. Galockin discloses the cooling system of claim 1, wherein the cooling fluid tube is configured to be attached to the second solution tank (Fig. 1 – 48 is attached to second solution tank 14).
Conclusion
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/JON T. SCHERMERHORN JR./Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3763