Appeal No. 1999-1531
Application No. 08/675,912
with a piston and piston rod that can be operated by
pressurized air or hydraulic fluid (Figs. 2 and 3). Further,
a pallet engaging or stopping member includes inclined
portions 84 to engage corresponding inclined portions on a
pallet to stop the pallet. After an article is loaded on a
pallet, a signal is sent to retract the pallet engaging
member.
It is readily apparent to us, from a combined
consideration of the Threefoot and Carlson documents, that the
evidence relied upon by the examiner neither teaches nor would
have been suggestive of the subject matter of claim 15, in
particular, the feature of a component force of the abutting
force such that the spring force is overcome by a
predetermined magnitude of the component force for shifting
the stop roller into a lower end position. As explained,
supra, the applied patents each teach other than the
depressing of a stop roller out of a conveying path by the
abutting force exerted by the conveyed item on the stop
roller, as argued (main brief, pages 5 and 6). It is for this
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