Appeal No. 1997-2686
Application 08/346,635
entered by the examiner. This amendment canceled claims 1, 16
and 18 and added claims 19 and 20. Therefore, this appeal now
involves the rejection of claims 2-15, 17, 19 and 20.
The disclosed invention pertains to a drive belt for
use in a belt driven tape cartridge. More particularly, the
invention relates to a belt having a layer of high stiffness
material and a layer of low stiffness material.
Representative claim 15 is reproduced as follows:
15. A belt driven tape cartridge comprising
a belt drive roller;
a pair of belt guide rollers;
a pair of hubs on which is wound a length of magnetic
tape, thereby forming a tape pack; and
a drive belt entrained around the drive roller, the pair
of guide rollers, and the tape pack, whereby rotation of the
drive roller causes the drive belt to transfer the magnetic
tape from one hub to the other, wherein the drive belt
comprises a layer of a high stiffness material adjacent to the
tape pack and a layer of a low stiffness material further away
from the tape pack.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Von Behren 3,692,255 Sep. 19, 1972
Newell 4,396,465 Aug. 02, 1983
Habegger 4,752,282 June 21, 1988
Balloni et al. (Balloni) 5,057,177 Oct. 15, 1991
Eggebeen et al. (Eggebeen) 5,131,891 July 21, 1992
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