Appeal No. 97-4214
Application 08/603,348
application.
The invention is a motorized scaffold truck. Claim 11 is
representative and reads as follows:
11. A universal motorized scaffold truck comprising:
a horizontal support frame having scaffold supporting
means for removably and entirely supporting conventionally
available scaffold means thereon, said frame supported by
wheels for lateral movement on a ground surface;
a vertically extendable steering mast having upper and
lower ends and secured at said lower end to said frame and
having a steering mechanism connected for steering selected of
said wheels from the upper end of said mast;
an electric motor mounted on said frame and engaged for
driving selected of said wheels; and
a switch at the upper end of said mast for selectively
energizing said electric motor.
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
anticipation and obviousness are:
Everitt 2,857,212 Oct. 21, 1958
Rosander 3,503,466 Mar. 31, 1970
The appealed claims stand rejected as follows:
a) claims 11, 12 and 15 through 19 under 35 U.S.C. §
102(b) as being anticipated by Rosander;
b) claims 13, 14, 21 and 22 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
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