Appeal No. 1999-1524 Page 3
Application No. 08/938,051
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to an accumulating
conveyor with latchable pallets. An understanding of the
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 15,
which is reproduced in the opinion section below.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Jacksch et al. 4,088,220 May
9, 1978
(Jacksch)
Linden 3 4,934,515 June 19,
1990
van den Bergh et al. 5,253,745 Oct. 19,
1993
(van den Bergh)
Gyger 5,407,058 Apr. 18,
1995
3We note that on page 3 of the examiner's answer, the
examiner failed to include this patent in section (9) Prior
Art of Record. Moreover, we note that the patent to Orisaka
et al. (U.S. Patent No. 5,540,319) included in section (9) of
the answer was not relied upon by the examiner in any
rejection of the claims under appeal.
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