Appeal No. 94-3000
Application 07/914,654
section 112(6)"). According to pages 5, 6, 7 and 10 of the
specification, the lifting means is described as follows:
The invention further relates to an arrangement
for carrying out the method mentioned in the opening
paragraph, this arrangement being provided with a
lifting member for lifting the substrates above the
liquid and with means for gripping the dry
substrates above the liquid.
... On the lower side of the substrates, which
in the known arrangement are taken from the liquid,
a drop of liquid sticks. In order to avoid this,
the arrangement according to the invention is
provided with a knife-shaped member, which supports
the substrates when lifted from the liquid at those
parts of the substrates which are the last to leave
the liquid. The drops then flow away via the knife-
shaped member.
... Further, the arrangement comprises a
lifting member 15, which can be moved upwardly by
means of shafts 16, passing through the bottom 10 of
the bath 2 and which are driven by driving means not
shown. Thus, the substrates 1 can be slipped or
moved upwardly from the cassette 4 into the
auxiliary cassette 11.
... According to the invention, this knife-
shaped member 19 forms parts of the lifting member
15 and the substrates are lifted from the liquid by
the knife-shaped member 19. The knife-shaped member
19 is made, for example, of quartz glass and has an
apical angle of less than 100 . When the substrateso
are lifted from the liquid 3, the whole quantity of
liquid now flows away from the substrate via this
knife-shaped member 19.
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