Appeal No. 98-0009
Application No. 08/538,414
two. A cutter blade pivotally mounted between the two plates
has a cutting edge “which matingly engages the cutting edge of
the end plate.”
Hoffman, the primary reference, discloses a declipping
system in which two pairs of scissors-type pivotal blades
coincidentally cut the end rings from the facing ends of two
adjacent sausage packages. While the two sets of blades are
parallel to each other, they are not connected by end plates,
much less having a curved cutting edge carried by end plates.
Whereas in the claimed system the package is cut with a blade
positioned on the end of the two blades, where they are
joined, in Hoffman the package is cut by a conventional
scissors technique. This can be appreciated by comparing
Figure 5 of the application with Figure 1 of Hoffman. Hoffman
therefore lacks a showing of the claimed end plate
interconnecting the ends of the parallel plates, the curved
cutting edge on the end plate, and the cutter blade mounted
for pivotal motion between the plates.
LaBounty is directed to an apparatus for attachment to
the end of a backhoe or the like, its purpose being to grapple
rubble and debris such as fallen trees on a construction site,
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