Appeal No. 1999-0272 Page 6
Application No. 08/605,212
In accordance with 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7), we have selected
claim 16 as the representative claim from the appellants'
grouping of claims 7, 16 and 17 to decide the appeal on the
rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103. See page 4 of the
appellants' brief.
Claim 16 recites an apparatus for severing glass gobs
from at least one strand of molten glass, comprising, inter
alia, a first shear blade arranged on a first shear arm; a
second shear blade arranged on a second shear arm; a common
column on which the first and second shear arms are coaxially
and pivotally mounted to be pivotally moveable about the
column; and "a separate powered drive coupled to each said
shear arm to pivotally move said first and second shear arms
in synchronism with each other to sever the glass gobs."
Ward discloses an apparatus for shearing an elongated gob
of glass from the end of a vertically flowing stream of molten
glass and tilting the severed gob from its vertical
orientation toward a horizontal orientation. As shown in
Figure 3, Ward's apparatus includes an upper blade 22 carried
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