Appeal No. 96-1870
Application 08/088,570
(d) a pair of toothed wheels mounted onto said
second member, said toothed wheels being
connected to each other through a flexible
connector, said toothed wheels engaging said
first and said second racks such that said
first and third members move together in
opposite directions.
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
anticipation are:
Young 2,835,527 May 20, 1958
Luhrs 3,094,007 June 18, 1963
Vranish et al. (Vranish) 4,707,013 Nov. 17, 1987
The claims on appeal stand rejected as follows:
a) claim 5 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, as being
based on a specification which is objected to as “failing to
provide an adequate written description of the invention”
(answer, Paper No. 19, page 3); and
b) claim 3 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by
Young, Luhrs or Vranish.
With regard to the rejection of claim 5, the examiner
considers that the appellant’s specification fails to provide
an adequate written description of the invention because
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