Ex parte CARIC et al. - Page 5



          Appeal No. 1999-0180                                                        
          Application No. 08/629,260                                                  


          vibration member having flexible protrusions.  As explained on              
          page 2 of the specification,                                                
               [o]n parts of the skin which overlie a relatively                      
               soft tissue and hence are relatively insensitive to                    
               mechanical vibrations, the flexible protrusions are                    
               not bent so that the mechanical vibrations penetrate                   
               deeply into the skin and into the underlying tissue,                   
               and an adequate anaesthetizing effect is achieved.                     
               On parts of the skin which closely overlie a bone                      
               and hence are relatively sensitive to mechanical                       
               vibrations, the flexible protrusions are bent, so                      
               that uncomfortable mechanical vibrations of the bone                   
               underlying the skin are limited as far as possible.                    
               Garenfeld, the examiner’s primary reference, discloses                 
          a depilation apparatus 1 having a first depilation member                   
          3 comprising a first set of counter rotating rollers 5, 6, and              
          a second depilation member 4 comprising a second set of                     
          counter rotating rollers 5, 6.  Garenfeld further includes a                
          vibration member in the form of a pivotally mounted screen                  
          plate 15 having hair passage openings therethrough which                    
          prevent skin from being gripped by the rollers of the                       
          depilation members while allowing hair to pass through the                  
          openings to the rollers.  The vibrations of the screen have an              
          anaesthetizing effect on the skin to relieve pain sensations                
          experienced when hair is being pulled from the skin.  Column                
          2, lines 48-53.  Thus, Garenfeld is akin to the known                       
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