Appeal No. 95-2911
Application 07/814,693
claims 5 and 8 through 10, all of the claims pending in the
present application. Claims 1 through 4, 6, 7 and 11 have been
canceled.
The invention relates to a carriage for a floppy disk drive
for carrying the magnetic head. In particular, Appellant
discloses on pages 11 and 12 of the specification and illustrates
in Figures 3a and 3b a floppy disk drive assembly having a
magnetic head 7 and a carriage 21 for carrying the magnetic head.
Appellant discloses that the carriage includes a narrow bracket
portion 24 extending therefrom and having an integrally formed,
upraised, wedge-shaped element 25 having flat sides tapering to a
thin edge for engagement with a thread groove of a feed screw 43
and being formed of press-worked sheet metal, the sheet-metal
being the same sheet-metal forming the carriage 21 so as to form
a unitary structure.
The independent claim 5 is reproduced as follows:
5. A floppy disk drive assembly having a magnetic head for
recording information on and/or reproducing information from a
floppy disk comprising: a carriage formed of sheet metal for
carrying the magnetic head; and drive means for driving the
carriage so as to enable the magnetic head to scan a track formed
on a side of the floppy disk, in which the drive means includes a
feed screw and a motor for driving the feed screw and in which
the sheet metal forming the carriage includes a narrow bracket
portion extending therefrom and having an integrally formed,
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