Appeal No. 1999-1488
Application 08/630,332
aperture in the machine and in effect constitutes a drawer.
Also, whether the tray (stacker) 63 of Suzuki is a drawer type
is moot as far as claim 1 is concerned, since claim 1 only
requires that one of the hopper and stacker be "of a drawer
type having a drawer."
Nevertheless, we will not sustain rejection (1)
because we do not consider that it would have been obvious to
one of ordinary skill in the art, in view of Yamamoto, to
provide the apparatus of Lang with a sensor means as recited
in claim 1. In the first place, the thrust of Lang's
disclosure is to simplify the prior known automatic drawer
lock controls by using the
preexisting signals to the feeder to actuate the lock (col. 1,
lines 15 to 21 and 54 to 59; col. 4, line 62, to col. 5, line
7). Adding sensors to the Lang apparatus to control the
drawer lock would be contrary to Lang's teachings, in that it
would require the use of extra wiring and other hardware,
which is what Lang seeks to avoid.
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