Appeal No. 96-4104
Application 08/262,231
8. An apparatus for manufacturing electric motor parts
from a sheet of stock material, said apparatus comprising:
a blanking station;
first means for guiding sheet stock material to said
blanking station;
second means at said blanking station for blanking
generally planar laminas from said sheet stock material;
third means for forming spacing means in said generally
planar laminas at predetermined locations thereof; and
fourth means for relatively rotating said laminas so that
said spacing means of adjacently positioned laminas are offset
whereby each of said laminas have surfaces which when
positioned adjacently are separated from adjacent lamina
surfaces by said spacing means.
The references relied on by the examiner in the final
rejection are:
Diederichs 4,538,345 Sept. 3, 1985
Neuenschwander 4,619,028 Oct. 28, 1986
Claims 8 to 12 and 24 to 27 stand finally rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over Neuenschwander in view of
Diederichs, under 35 U.S.C. § 103.2
The essence of the rejection is stated on pages 3 to 4 of
the examiner’s answer as follows:
2The examiner indicates on page 2 of the examiner’s
answer that an alternative rejection of the claims as
anticipated by Neuenschwander, under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b), has
been withdrawn.
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