Appeal No. 1998-2501
Application No. 08/534,149
Applying Kukreja to claim 15, taking Figure 1 of Kukreja
for example, it is seen that the reference does disclose an
apparatus for opening a door 26 in a tape cartridge 20 with
the door having a rear edge. The cartridge is inserted to be
mounted in a tape drive 10. The tape drive clearly has a
chassis and a magnetic head. The Kukreja apparatus also has a
rotating arm (lever 402 of door opening mechanism 360, best
shown in Figure 11b), and the arm is rotatably mounted to the
chassis through pivot pin 404 such that the rotating arm is
free to move in an arc. The rotating arm also has a door
engaging end (foot portion 409 and toe portion 410) and this
door engaging end is positioned so that when the cartridge is
inserted into the tape drive, the rear edge of the door is
forced against the door engaging end of the rotating arm,
forcing the door open. We also note that Kukreja does show
the door 26 covering an opening in an edge wall of the tape
cartridge and a reasonable interpretation would be that when
the tape cartridge is inserted into the tape drive, the edge
wall is, indeed, “moving toward the magnetic head,” as
claimed.
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