Appeal No. 95-3698 Page 3
Application No. 08/006,717
F.3d 942, 946-47, 42 USPQ2d 1881, 1884-85 (Fed. Cir. 1997).
After review of the appellant's disclosure, it is our
opinion that such disclosure fails to adequately disclose
what structure corresponds to the claimed "pivotal means
disposed between said car body and said second carriage
permitting free pivotal movement of said car body about a
generally horizontal axis relative to said second carriage
as said pin means sliding in said groove causes said car
body to pivot about said generally horizontal axis relative
to said first carriage." The second paragraph of page 4 of
the specification provides written description support for
the claimed "pivotal means." However, that description
does not specifically disclose the structure that
corresponds to the claimed "pivotal means." Thus
independent claim 27 and its dependent claims fail to
particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject
matter which the appellant regards as the invention.
The sole argument (pp. 2-3) raised by the appellant is that
the appellant's disclosure provides "full and complete support"
for the structure of the "pivotal means" recited in independent
claim 27. Specifically, the appellant directs our attention to
Figures 12, 13 and 14 and the discussion of those figures found
on pages 12 and 13 of the specification.
We have carefully considered the argument raised by the
appellant in the request for rehearing, however, that argument
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