Appeal No. 1997-2836
Application No. 08/106,009
The following references of record are relied upon by the
examiner as evidence of obviousness (in conjunction with the
disclosure of prior art in the ¡Background of the Invention¢
section of appellant’s specification):
Frank 1,315,827 Sep. 9, 1919
Radtke 3,176,253 Mar. 30, 1965
Mittermaier 662,627 May 7, 1963
(published Canadian Pat. Application)
All of the appealed claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 for obviousness in view of either Radtke, Frank or
Mittermaier, with each of the references taken in combination
with background prior art disclosed in appellant’s
specification relating to the so-called ¡press fit bonding¢
technique for manufacturing a laminated assembly within a
die. According to this disclosed prior art manufacturing1
technique, the individual laminations are positioned against
chocks of the die, and then pressed together within the die.
Each lamination includes stakes which are pressed into an
adjacent lamination so that they are connected together.
After having carefully considered the entire record in
1Although the examiner has chosen to apply six separate
rejections to the claims, these rejections can be viewed
collectively for purposes of this appeal.
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