Appeal No. 96-1659
Application 08/166,931
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134
from the examiner's rejection of claims 35-68, which
constitute all the claims in the application.
The disclosed invention pertains to an arrangement for
interconnecting a plurality of smoke alarms within a building
to each other and to an external source of electrical power.
Representative claim 35 is reproduced as follows:
35. An arrangement comprising:
a building occupied, at least at times, by human beings;
the building having a first set of electrical terminals;
a source of electrical power located outside of the
building; the source having a second set of electrical
terminals;
a first set of conductors connected between the first set
of electrical terminals and the second set of electrical
terminals;
a master smoke alarm located within the building; the
master smoke alarm having a set of master power input
terminals connected with the second set of electrical
terminals by way of a second set of conductors; the master
smoke alarm being further characterized; (i) by having a set
of master input/output terminals; (ii) by including a master
siren operative to sound an alarm in the presence of smoke;
and (iii) by including a master battery;
plural slave smoke alarms located within the building;
each slave smoke alarm being further characterized: (i) by
having a set of slave input/output terminals; (ii) by
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