Appeal No. 97-1626
Application 08/299,123
claimed.
Subsequent to the final rejection, independent claim 1
was amended to include “first means for transferring said
pallets from a most downstream one of said series of
intermittent conveyors to said feed back conveyor after said
work pieces are removed from said pallets” and “second means
for transferring said pallets from said feed back conveyor to
a most upstream one of said series of intermittent conveyors
while putting a first one of said work pieces on each of said
pallets.”
Appellants’ description of what occurs at the upstream
end of the production line is found on page 9 of the
specification and reads as follows:
When assembling the above described film unit 40
on the production line as shown in Fig. 2, first the
basic body 53 is supplied from a parts supply
section 69 onto the pallet 13. The basic body 53 is
fixedly positioned on the pallet 13 by confining
projections 13a and 13b formed on the top surface of
the pallet 13. The pallet 13 is then put on the
rails 25 of the first intermittent conveyor 3 of the
pallet conveyor 1.
Appellants’ description of what occurs at the downstream
end of the production line is found on page 11 of the
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