Appeal No. 96-1457
Application No. 08/098,165
“a plurality of exposure indicators as set forth in claim 25,
where the exposure indicators are different or separate from
manual actuators of a shutter activation assembly” (Brief, page
16). The examiner states (Answer, page 5) that Cummins has:
shutter activation means including individual
manual actuators (vertically-moved bar or link 76, slot
78, pin 80, angularly-extending portions 82, overturned
extremities 84, and platforms 86) mounted to said frame
means and operatively connected to said shutter means
for activating said shutter means in response to
manipulation by a user; and
a plurality of exposure indicators (actuating 3
buttons 32) equal in number to said lenses and paired
with respective ones of said lenses, to indicate that
respective film areas have been exposed via said
lenses, said exposure indicators being separate or
different from said actuators.
Inasmuch as appellants claim that the exposure indicators are
“separate or different from said actuators,” and not “separate or
different” from the claimed “shutter activation means” which
includes the individual “actuators,” we agree with the examiner
that the exposure indicators are broadly speaking “separate or
different from said actuators” in spite of their mechanical
3Cummins states (column 5, lines 72 through 74) that each
actuating button 32 serves as an “exposure indicator.”
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