Appeal No. 97-2227
Application 08/254,978
We REVERSE and, pursuant to our authority under the
provisions of 37 CFR § 1.196(b), enter a new rejection of
claims 9-13.
The appellant’s invention pertains to a sailboat winch
having four speeds at successively higher gear ratios.
Independent claim 1 is further illustrative of the appealed2
subject matter and reads as follows:
1. A sailboat winch having four speeds at
successively higher gear ratios comprising a support
base, a drum rotatably mounted on said support base,
a central rotary drive shaft extending within said
drum, first drive means between said shaft and said
drum for driving said drum at a gear ratio, first
drive train means between said shaft and said drum
for driving said drum in a third and fourth gear at
a first location on said drum, and second drive
train means between said shaft and said drum,
independent of said first drive train means, for
driving said drum in a second gear at a second
location on said drum.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Atfield et al. (Atfield) 4,725,043 Feb. 16, 1988
Dudden GB 2 109 489 Jun. 02, 1983
Notwithstanding the examiner’s statement on page 3 of the answer that2
the copy of the claims in the appendix to the brief “is correct,” we note that
in claim 1 (as reproduced in this appendix) “said second drive train means”
should be -- and second drive train means --.
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