Appeal No. 98-1447
Application 08/385,356
We affirm the rejection of claim 1, but reverse the
rejection of claims 2 through 8 and 17 through 23. Our
reasoning appears below.
Claim 1 is drawn to a base bearing assembly for bearing
an upright object comprising, inter alia, a pedestal arranged
on a base, with the pedestal borne by a film of liquid,
floatingly rotatable about a perpendicular axis on the base.
A reading of the Unterberger document reveals to us the
teaching of a hydrostatic air-bearing system, preferably for4
precision round tables. Unterberger discloses (Fig. 1) a
round table mounting plate 17 for work piece 20 secured to
4Hydrostatic relates to liquids at rest or the pressures they exert or transmit.
Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam Company, Springfield,
Massachusetts, 1979.
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