Appeal No. 1999-0983
Application No. 08/782,891
specification or claims of the originally-filed application.2
However, at page 6, line 26, to page 7, line 13, of the
original specification appellant discloses:
The tire bead shown in Fig. 1 comprises a bead
wire 3 formed in this case by the winding of a
profiled member of curved cross section. It also
comprises a carcass 1 of the monofil type anchored
to the bead wire by the fact that the single cord
constituting the carcass forms forward and return
paths with respect to each bead wire around which it
is very intimately pressed. The carcass and the
anchoring thereof to a bead wire are constructed in
the manner explained in US Patent 4,801,344. This
arrangement is, to be sure, not limitative, and
other arrangements can be adopted within the bead.
All the components which the bead contains have not
been indicated in detail since, in general, the
present invention does not directly concern their
selection and location, but essentially proposes a
new shape for the inner edge of the bead.
Thus, the original application discloses that bead wire 3
anchors the carcass. Nevertheless, the examiner contends that
there is no written description of "carcass anchoring means,"
i.e., it is new matter, because (answer, page 6):
one of ordinary skill in the art would not have
known from the original disclosure that the carcass
2Application No. 08/284,809, filed August 2, 1994, of
which the present case is a file wrapper continuation under 37
CFR § 1.62 (1995).
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