Appeal No. 97-3754
Application 08/302,504
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims
1 to 13, all the claims in the application.
In the examiner’s answer, the examiner made a new
ground of rejection, in response to which appellant filed, on
November 13, 1997, a Supplemental Reply Brief on Appeal (Paper
No. 23), and an Amendment Under 37 CFR § 1.193(b)(Paper No.
24), amending independent claims 1 and 10. Claim 10 is illus-
trative of the subject matter in issue; as amended, it reads:
10. An apparatus for compacting and cutting volumi-
nous objects of strong elasticity, the apparatus comprising:
(a) means for cutting;
(b) a rectangular tunnel having a substantially
horizontally aligned top wall, a substantially horizontally
aligned bottom wall, the bottom wall parallel to the top
wall, and two substantially vertically aligned side walls,
each of the two side walls extending between the top wall and
the bottom wall, the tunnel further including an entrance and
an extremity, the tunnel being wider at the entrance than at
the extremity, the extremity of the tunnel in communication
with the means for cutting;
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