Appeal No. 2000-1000
Application No. 08/392,062
14 [to] be reliably, securely and tightly
clamped within the liquid conduit groove
34.
As to the “preferred embodiment” of the invention
(specification, page 7) appellant addresses “short locking
screws” mounted within tapped “bores” with the screws being
advanced into interfering engagement with inwardly facing
“undercut surfaces” (Fig. 7). As a “modification”
(specification, pages 7 and page 8, and pages 16 and 17),
appellant describes short locking “pins” to be driven through
dam member “bores” into interfering engagement with inwardly-
facing “undercut surfaces” (Fig. 8). In the specification
(page 17), relative to both embodiments (Figs. 7 and 8),
appellant expressly indicates that a simple tool such as a
screw driver or punch used to engage the exposed “heads” of
the locking “screws or pins” is “all that is needed to
effectuate the clamping of the dam assembly in place.”
At this juncture, we direct our attention to the content
of claims 20 and 26.
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