Appeal No. 1997-3340 Page 8
Application No. 08/323,500
another in opposite angular directions. Therefore, we conclude that the Ogino abstract does
not anticipate claim 1. Accordingly, we shall not sustain the examiner's rejection of claim 1 or
claims 3 and 4 which depend therefrom.
Independent claim 6 requires a first pedal portion having an axis of rotation and a
second pedal portion which is "independently rotatable relative to said first pedal portion, about
said axis of rotation." The Ogino abstract lacks this feature. Therefore, we shall not sustain
the examiner's rejection of independent claim 6 or claim 7 which depends therefrom.
Independent claim 14 requires plate engaging means and plate clamping means which
"pivot relative to each other in opposite angular directions about said axis of said pedal shaft."
The only pivoting of portions of the Ogino pedal about the axis of the pedal shaft occurs with
(and thus in the same angular direction as) pivoting of the pedal body about the pedal shaft axis.
Accordingly, we shall not sustain the examiner's rejection of claim 14 or of claims 15-17, 20,
21, 34 and 35 which depend therefrom.
Independent claim 22 requires binding plate engaging means and binding plate clamping
means pivotable about a common axis and "common biasing means for biasing said plate
engaging means relative to said plate clamping means about said common axis such that said
binding plate clamping means and engaging means are biased toward each other about said
common axis." The Ogino pedal comprises plate engaging means (the hook 6 at the front of
the pedal) and clamping means (elastic elements 7) which are disposed on the pedal body (5)
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