Appeal No. 98-1354
Application 08/218,507
housing, a saw blade rotatably supported on the carriage, a
motor mounted on the carriage for rotating the saw blade, a
battery supported by the housing for supplying power to the
motor, gripping members carried on the housing and movable
between an open position and a closed position for firming
gripping an object to be cut, means for actuating the gripping
members to closed positions where they firmly grip the object
to be cut, and a manually operable actuator carried by the
housing and operatively connected with the carriage for moving
the carriage from a retracted inoperative position to a
advanced operative position.
We turn now to the evidence of obviousness.
The patent to Hanaway teaches a manually-held power-
driven pipe cutter (Figure 1) which is indicated to be readily
portable (column 2, lines 5,6). A secondary frame 19, slidably
mounted on a main frame 11, is moved by rotation of a clamping
screw 34 threadedly received in the main frame. A drive motor
57, slidably received in the main frame and the secondary
frame, includes an
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