Appeal No. 1998-1117
Application No. 08/220,756
at least three customer operation stations operable
independently of one another;
at least two cash handling mechanisms wherein the number
of said cash handling mechanisms is fewer in number than said
customer operation stations and each of said cash handling
mechanisms normally handles specific customer operation
stations; and
a controller for determining if one of said cash handling
mechanism fails and for controlling each functional cash
handling mechanism to respond to said customers’ requests
normally handled by said failed cash handling mechanism.
The references relied on by the Examiner are as follows:
Granzow et al. (Granzow) 4,521,008 Jun. 4,
1985
Oota et al. (Yoshihiko)(JP) 62-010788 Jan. 19,
1987
Ito (JP) 4-75165 Mar. 10, 1992
Claim 1 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Ito and Yoshihiko. Claim 2 stands rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Ito,
Yoshihiko and Granzow.
Rather than repeat the arguments of Appellant or the
Examiner, we make reference to the brief and answer for the
details thereof.
OPINION
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