Appeal No. 98-1354
Application 08/218,507
carriage is slidably mounted for slidable movement. Thus, each
of the components referenced by the examiner cannot fairly be
considered to be a carriage.
Claim 22 requires gripping members carried on the housing
and movable between an open position and a closed position for
firmly gripping an object to be cut. In our opinion, the
Hanaway patent would not have been suggestive of the movable
gripping members as now claimed. More specifically, Hanaway
discloses, at best, a single, fixed, gripping member on the
main frame (housing) 11 comprising a horizontally extending
recess with face plates to define a generally V-shaped notch
28. It follows that Hanaway would also have not been
suggestive of the “means for actuating said gripping members
to closed positions where they firmly grip said object to be
cut”, a 35 U.S.C. § 112, sixth paragraph, means recitation.
The specification (page 13) describes the structure for
effecting movement of the gripper members (upper jaws 94, 96)
to firmly grip a conduit.
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