Appeal No. 97-1626
Application 08/299,123
appellants
amended claims 1, 3 and 5, and canceled claim 8. Thus, 2
claims 1, 3-7, 9 and 10 remain before us for review.
Appellants’ invention pertains to a pallet conveyor for
use in a production line comprising a series of intermittent
conveyors, and supplementary conveyors disposed between
adjacent intermittent conveyors. As explained by appellants
on page 3 of the specification, “the pallet conveyor of the
present invention is easy [sic] adjustable to any production
line by removing or adding appropriate number of intermittent
conveyors and supplementary conveyors.” Independent claim 1,
a copy of which appears in the appendix to appellants’ brief,
is exemplary of the appealed subject matter.
In rejecting the claims under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) and 35
U.S.C. § 103, the examiner relied upon the references listed
2The amendments filed subsequent to the final rejection
are amendment “B” (Paper No. 8, submitted May 6, 1996) and
amendment “C” (Paper No. 12, submitted July 30, 1996).
Although the examiner has indicated that each of these
amendment have been entered (examiner answer, page 2), they
have not as yet been physically entered. The examiner may
wish to correct this oversight.
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