Appeal No. 97-1005
Application 08/262,993
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's
final rejection of claims 12 through 23. Claims 1 through 11
and 24, the only other claims pending in the application,
stand withdrawn from further consideration under 37 CFR §
1.142(b).
Appellant's invention relates to an apparatus for
continuously cutting extruded metal tubing generally of the
type used in parallel flow heat exchangers. As explained in
the specification (page 1) and as seen in Figure 1 of the
drawings, such extruded tubing is of flattened cross section
having tube major and minor dimensions. In the "Background"
section of appellant's specification (pages 1-4) it is noted
that prior art methods and apparatus for cutting such extruded
metal tubing were relatively slow in that the tubing was
intermittently advanced and then halted while some operation
was performed on it. This approach is indicated to have
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