Appeal No. 95-2880
Application 08/091,294
rejections of claim 4, and therefore we also will not sustain the
rejections of claim 5.
Livingstone also does not cause us to sustain the rejections
applied to claim 6, which adds to claim 1 "a shoulder in which a
sealing means is arranged." Yoshioka is the only reference
applied against this claim that discloses sealing means in
addition to the bead and groove connection, and therefore the
rejection which includes Schneider rather than Yoshioka fails on
its face. However, the Yoshioka sealing means does not include
the required shoulder, and even assuming, arguendo, that it would
have been obvious to add Livingstone's lip sealing means to the
modified Colin device, we fail to perceive any suggestion or
motivation which would have caused one of ordinary skill in the
art to make the further modification of providing a shoulder upon
which to install this sealing lip.
Claim 9 adds a pair of sealing shoulders to the structure
recited in claim 2, as claim 4 did to claim 1, and we will not
sustain the rejections of this claim for the same reasons as
claim 4.
Livingstone also was added to the rejections against claim
10, which depends from claim 9. However, the comments and
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