Appeal No. 97-3085
Application 08/236,835
to this Board from a final rejection, and the fourth, 3
Application 08/236,069, has matured into U.S. Patent No.
5,577,963, issued on November 26, 1996.
The disclosures in the four applications are essentially
identical and pertain to a torsion isolator having, among
other
features, (1) a spring disposed in a liquid pressure dampener
and functioning as a piston, (2) a pivot stop associated with
the spring, (3) a counterbalance associated with the spring,
and (4) a control means associated with the spring for
momentarily providing hydraulic slack or delay in the
dampening operation. The claims in the four applications are
directed to an isolator having one or more of these features.
As described by the appellant, “[i]n brief, the gist[s] of the
four inventions in the ‘069, ‘809, ‘835 and ‘838 applications
are respectively the pivot stop D, the counterbalance C, the
momentary negation of dampening or hydraulic [slack] provided
3Application 08/236,835 is the instant application,
Application 08/236,809 is the subject of Appeal No. 97-2610
and Application 08/236,838 is the subject of Appeal No. 97-
2221.
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