Appeal No. 96-1893
Application 08/073,416
force contributing to the restraint, we cannot assume such to
meet Appellants' claim limitation. We, therefore, will not
sustain the rejection of claim 12. Likewise, the rejection of
claims 2 through 6, 8 through 10 and 13 through 20 will not be
sustained since they depend from claim 12 and thereby contain
the same limitation.
Regarding independent claim 21, we note the limitation
"wherein the positioning means is prevented from restraining
another change in positional relationship between the main
chassis and the slide chassis in both directions opposite to
each other along the feed path when the positioning means is
connected to both the main chassis and the slide chassis"
(emphasis added).
The Examiner's position is that "the positioning means of
Tsuchida et al prevents movement to the right in Figure 4 (but
not to the left) when the positioning means is connected to
both the main chassis and the slide chassis. Therefore, it
does not restrain, or it is prevented from restraining, a
change in
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