Appeal No. 98-1938
Application 08/570,196
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner’s final
rejection of claims 31 through 34, 40 through 42 and 48
through 50, which are all of the claims pending in the
application.
Claims 1 through 30, 35 through 39 and 43 through 47 have been
canceled.
Appellants’ invention is directed to a hub for wound-up
information media in strip or tape form. As expressly noted on
pages 2 and 3 of the specification and as required in
independent claim 31 on appeal, the hub comprises an outer
ring (2) and an inner ring (3) connected to each other by
flexibly deformable intermediate elements (4) extending in
radial and circumferential directions and “preventing any
relative movement of the outer ring to the inner ring in its
circumferential direction” (specification, page 3).
Independent claim 31 is representative of the subject matter
on appeal and a copy of that claim is found in the Appendix to
appellants’ brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Honsa 3,726,489 Apr. 10, 1973
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