Appeal No. 1997-3482
Application No. 08/431,779
application. An amendment after final rejection filed
September 9, 1996 was denied entry by the Examiner.
The claimed invention relates to a cartridge for a disk-
shaped storage medium, the cartridge having partition walls
formed by ribs which extend from the interior surface of each
half of the cartridge shell. More particularly, when the
cartridge half shells are assembled together, a protrusion in
one rib mates with a complementary shaped groove in the other
rib. The ribs, which do not meet but rather define a small
gap between them, are aligned to form a rib wall creating a
compartment which separates the disk-shaped storage medium
from the rest of the cartridge interior. Appellants assert at
page 4 of the specification that this rib wall serves to
prevent debris from entering the media storage compartment.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the invention and read as
follows:
1. A cartridge for a disk-shaped storage medium,
comprising:
a first cartridge shell having a first rib on an interior
surface thereof, the first rib having a top having a
groove therein extending along the length of the
first rib; and
a second cartridge shell having a second rib on an
interior surface thereof, the second rib having a
2
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