Appeal No. 95-1844
Application 07/822,063
pages 10-21 and 10-22 is attached to this decision]. Fink
indicates that a current transformer is “installed around a
cable, or conductor in a bushing” [emphasis added]. In order
to be installed around a cable, there must be an opening in
the current transformer through which the cable passes. This
definition substantiates the examiner’s position.
Additionally, we note that appellant has declined to
respond to the alternate position taken by the examiner. The
examiner has determined that the measuring circuit 4 of
Lehrmann would be contained within a housing, and the
conductor L3 must enter this housing through an opening in the
housing for the current to be measured. We agree that there
appears to be no way that the conductor L3 in Lehrmann can get
into the measurement housing except through an opening adapted
to receive the current-carrying conductor through that
opening. Such an interpretation would also meet the broad
22. This handbook is considered a standard reference work and
is relied upon by us only to substantiate facts in the
evidentiary showing already made by the examiner. This
evidence does not constitute a basis for a new ground of
rejection. See In re Boon, 439 F.2d 724, 727, 169 USPQ 231,
234 (CCPA 1971).
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