Appeal No. 95-4325
Application 08/006,957
11. The Examiner in an advisory action, mailed September 14,
1994, stated that upon the filing an appeal, the proposed
amendment, filed September 2, 1994, will be entered. We note
that the amendment has been entered into the record and thereby,
claims 1 through 3, 5 through 14 and 16 through 19 are properly
before us for our consideration.
Appellant’s invention relates to a tool specifying method
and apparatus for a numerically controlled automatic programming
system. Appellant discloses on page 1 of the specification that
it is known in the art that a particular tool to be used may be
specified in a program by entering a corresponding tool
management number. To specify a tool in this known method, it is
necessary for an operator to understand the relationships between
the tools and corresponding tool management numbers in advance.
On pages 2 through 8, Appellant discloses a prior art system as
described in Figures 18-22 which solves these disadvantages by
entering a tool into the system by a tool name, a nominal
diameter, etc. as well as a tool management number. See Figure
20. When the tool specifying processing is initiated as
illustrated in Figure 19, the operator may select the tool by
either the tool name or tool management number. On pages 9 and
10, Appellant discloses another prior art system as illustrated
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