Appeal No. 1999-2708 Page 8
Application No. 08/896,533
Here, Iizuka fails to cure the defect of Harlan and Aoki.
More specifically, Iizuka’s packing member 5, on which the
examiner relies, neither extends from a free edge of a
swinging shutter leaf toward an inner surface of an insertion
opening nor extends from a free edge of a swinging shutter
leaf toward a free edge of another swinging shutter leaf. To
the contrary, the packing member extends from an inner surface
of a door. Specifically, “outer door D . . . is provided on
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the inner surface thereof with a packing member 5 made from
sponge . . . .” Col. 2, ll. 7-10. Furthermore, the packing
member extends toward a wall perpendicular to an insertion
opening. Specifically, “[t]he packing member 5 forcibly
contacts an outer wall 2a surrounding the cassette insertion
opening 2 . . . ." Id. at ll. 11-13.
Because the combination of Harlan and Iizuka and of Aoki
and Iizuka would respectively lack a skirt extending from a
free edge of a swinging shutter leaf toward an inner surface
of an insertion opening to cover a gap therebetween when the
shutter leaf is closed and a skirt extending from a free edge
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