Appeal 2007-3920
Application 90/007,025
below as it appears in Rexnord's claim appendix.1 We have included
numbering from FIG. 5 (below, right) a cross-sectional view from the patent
on appeal for purposes of illustration only.
3. A gripper 12 adapted to be mounted on a product
capturing chain including a plate having a supporting surface 14
and first and second lateral
ends 32, and the chain also
including first and second lips 24,
26 respectively projecting from
the first and second ends 32 of the
plate, said gripper 12 comprising a
hollow, tubular, resilient member
including first and second ends 44,
46 respectively having therein first
and second openings, said member
being hollow along the entire
length thereof and being adapted
to be positioned against the
supporting surface 14 of the plate
with said first and second
openings respectively adjacent the first and second lateral
ends 32 of the plate and with the first and second lips 24, 26
respectively projecting into said first and second openings.
THE REJECTION
Claim 3 stands rejected as having been obvious in view of the claims
in two patents previously issued to the same inventors. Specifically,
claims 1-3 of the 4,629,063 (063) patent and claims 1-4 of the 4,809,846
(846) patent.
1 Appeal Brief (Br.) 8.
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