Appeal No. 1999-1751 Page 7
Application No. 08/814,299
gear is called a worm gear. Since Hawkswell's drive nut 382
and lead screw 72 inherently include a thread making a
complete turn, it is inappropriate to consider either
Hawkswell's drive nut 38 to be a helical rack or Hawkswell's
lead screw 72 to be a helical pinion.
Since all the limitations of claims 1 and 2 are not found
in Hawkswell for the reasons stated above, the decision of the
examiner to reject claims 1 and 2 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) is
reversed.
Claim 30
This claim recites a device for transporting workpieces
including, inter alia, a first vacuum head element, a
reciprocating spindle, a housing having a radially-oriented
surface, and a porous foam member overlying the radially-
oriented surface wherein the porous foam member conforms to a
2See "Mechanics of Machinery," Third Edition, C. W. Ham
and E. J. Crane, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1948, pp.
123-127.
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