Appeal No. 1997-2818
Application No. 08/322,370
The claimed invention relates to a tool assembly for
drilling and riveting parts (claims 1 through 4, 6 through 8,
10 through 12 and 17) and to a process (claim 9) for
assembling, drilling and riveting parts. The independent
claims on appeal, namely, claims 1 and 9, call for “a pair of
sheet [sic]-holding devices” for holding the parts or
workpieces (7, 8) to be riveted together, a drill (21) for
drilling the rivet-receiving holes in the parts (7, 8) and the
apparatus for riveting the two parts together, namely, a
percussion riveting hammer (50, 51) and a counter-piece (54).
Both of the independent claims also recite, inter alia, that
“the sheet-holding device which is opposed to the drill [has]
vents for discharging chips.”
With regard to the copy of the appealed claims appended
to appellants’ brief, the reproduction of claims 1 and 17 is
no longer correct in light of the amendment that accompanied
appellants’ reply brief.
The following references are relied upon by the
examiner as evidence of obviousness in support of his
rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103:
Gutnik 4,815,193 Mar. 28, 1989
Stoewer 4,854,491 Aug. 8, 1989
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