Appeal No. 1999-2094 Page 10
Application No. 08/517,198
Vanzant (i.e., gas cylinder 52) and the urging means of Will
(i.e., springs 32) urge only in the direction towards the
transport position regardless of where the carrier or leg is
positioned. That is, the urging means of Vanzant (i.e., gas
cylinder 52) and the urging means of Will (i.e., springs 32)
never urge the carrier or leg in the direction towards the
loading and unloading position. Thus, in our view, the
combined teachings of the applied prior art would not have
suggested providing the carrier of Mottino with a spring which
both (1) urges the leg toward the transport position when said
leg is above a predetermined angle of pivotation, and
(2) urges the leg toward the loading position when the leg is
below the predetermined angle of pivotation.
For the reasons set forth above, the decision of the
examiner to reject claim 22 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
Claim 14
We sustain the rejection of claim 14 under 35 U.S.C. §
103.
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