Appeal No. 1999-2761
Application No. 08/790,322
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 24
to 26. The other claims remaining in the application, claims
1 to 23, have been allowed.
The claims on appeal are drawn to a process for
monitoring an automatic fastening machine, and are reproduced
in the appendix of appellants’ brief.
The reference applied in the final rejection is:
Speller, Sr. et al. 4,821,408
April 18, 1989
(Speller)
Claims 24 to 26 stand finally rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as anticipated by Speller.
Speller discloses an automated assembly apparatus in
which a cell 10 contains, inter alia, two automatic drilling
and riveting machines 16 and 18 for installing fasteners in
"details" (parts) held in fixtures in the cell (col. 5, lines
40 to 49). The cell also includes a controller 84 (numbered
1038 in Fig. 31) "for monitoring operation of the machines 16,
18" (col. 7, lines 2
to 5). The controller 1038 is connected to various network
interface units, including unit 1026 which in turn is
connected to controller 1014 (Fig. 31), there being one
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