Appeal No. 1997-2215
Application 08/332,058
claim 1 were described functionally. In our view, however,
claim 1 calls for members, i.e., structures, to provide for
these various functions. As such, Goddard and Alligood do not
anticipate claim 1.
Furthermore, appellants' functional language of claim l
presupposes that the function will be performed by the claimed
apparatus during normal or routine operation. Therefore, the
examiner's reliance on an operator abusing the actuating
extension link 55 of Alligood or Goddard by forcing it
past its normal negative masking position, cannot be said to
provide a proper factual basis for an anticipation rejection.
Turning to a consideration of Tanaka, we note that Tanaka
discloses urging members 2b and 4b, stopper member wedges 22,
24 and an operating member 20 which is translated to select
one of said full size or panoramic size positions. The
elastic arms 20a and 20b of Tanaka also serve as switching
members with resilient portions, i.e., the resilient arms.
However, reading Tanaka in this manner, means that Tanaka does
not have a connecting member connecting the switching member
to the exposure aperture masking plates. In Tanaka the lens
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