Appeal No. 1997-4285 Page 2
Application No. 08/420,852
under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellants'
brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Landreth 1,364,387 Jan. 4,
1921
Nugent 4,536,286 Aug. 20,
1985
Pahmeier et al. 4,724,084 Feb. 9,
1988
(Pahmeier)
Capella 4,834,840 May 30,
1989
Claims 9 and 10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
first paragraph, as failing to provide adequate support for
the invention as now claimed.1
Claims 1 to 3 and 5 to 10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Pahmeier in view of Capella
and Nugent.
1The rejection of claims 1 to 8 under this basis was
withdrawn by the examiner to reduce the issues on appeal
(answer, p. 4).
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