Appeal No. 97-4209
Application No. 08/532,507
This is a decision on an appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 20, 21, 29, and 30 which are all the
claims pending in the application. Claims 1 through 19 and 22
through 28 have been canceled. Appellant's claimed subject
matter is a grinding wheel. Claim 20 is exemplary of the
subject matter on appeal and recites:
20. Grinding wheel construction for cutting teeth into a belt
blank to produce a timing belt, said wheel construction
comprising:
a wheel (58) having an axis of rotation (F) and an
abrasive peripheral grinding surface (100) of predetermined
width;
and characterized by said grinding surface (100) having a
concave profile across said width and a plurality of radially
projecting grinding ribs (106) extending circumferentially
about the periphery of said grinding surface (106) and spaced
laterally across the width of said grinding surface (100).
THE REFERENCES
The examiner has relied on the following references:
Miller 2,144,987 Jan. 24, 1939
Quintilio 5,373,666 Dec. 20, 1994
(filed Mar. 22, 1993)
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 20, 21, 29 and 30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Miller in view Quintilio.
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