Appeal No. 1998-2381
Application No. 08/304,725
pressure and temperature probes, bubble and reservoir level
sensors, regulating pump speed and transmitting monitored
information to a display) (id.). The wheeled console commonly
included one or more vertical poles [22, 26], a mounting
crossbar [32], and brackets for hanging or attaching fluid
reservoirs [58], instrumentation (e.g., a display [30]) and
other devices. The oxygenator [20] was typically mounted on a
mast or crossbar, e.g., by means of a swing arm [24] (page
13).
The Fort patent discusses prior art bifurcated
keyboards in which the keyboard sections are connected by a
hinge so that the sections may be elevated at an angle
relative to each other (col. 2, lines 7-40). One of Fort’s
objects is to eliminate the
use of a hinge (col. 2, line 64 to col. 3, line 2). The
reference teaches an ergonometric, bifurcated keyboard
arrangement in which the keyboard sections are mounted on ball
and socket joints [6a, 6b] so that each section is freely
rotatable about three mutually perpendicular axes (col. 2,
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