Appeal No. 1997-1503 Page 9
Application No. 08/422,649
at 6.) We disagree. Jenkins teaches the use of “cartridge
storage drums 40 . . . . ” Col. 5, l. 5. The reference
further teaches, “each drum 40 has a cylindrical configuration
with 512 cartridge storage compartments arranged in 16 columns
about its circumference and in 32 vertically spaced rows along
its axis. The drums are rotatably journaled in the frame
about central shafts 48.” Id. at ll. 25-30. Comparison of
the claim language to these teachings evidences that the
claimed “cell unit . . . having a plurality of cell columns
each including a plurality of cells, each cell for
accommodating a recording medium cartridge” reads on storage
drum 40 of the reference alone rather than on the drums 40,
stacks 44, and loading chute 36.
Although Jenkins teaches a cell unit, i.e., drum 40, it
does not teach entering cartridges directly into the cells of
the cell unit. To the contrary, the reference teaches that
“human access is limited to placing cartridges in a loading
chute and removing them from an unloading chute.” Col. 3, ll.
27-29. More specifically, “cartridges 174 can be loaded
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