Appeal No. 96-2779
Application 08/151,944
teachings of Brown and Moorhead to effectuate impressing the
message of Brown by rolling means, the resulting apparatus
would also include the “means for smoothing” as called for in
the last paragraph of claim 14. Accordingly, the
rejection of claim 14 based on Brown and Moorhead is not
sustainable.
The § 103 Rejection of Claims 5, 6 and 15
Based on Brown, Moorhead and Giliberti
Giliberti pertains to a small tractor for compacting
surfaces. To this end, the tractor is equipped with a
compacting cylinder 20. The cylinder is mounted for movement
between an operative position wherein it engages the ground
(e.g., Figure 5) and an inoperative position wherein it is
spaced from the ground (e.g., Figure 7). In addition,
Giliberti can be fitted with a brush 86 for raking a sand trap
of a golf course (see Figure 1).
Claim 5 depends from method claim 3 and further requires
that the smoothing step includes raking. In that appellant
discloses on page 3 of the specification that it is
conventional for a grounds keeper to comb the beach each
morning with a rake to maintain the beach clean and orderly
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