Appeal No. 1999-1533 Page 5
Application No. 08/666,948
for moving the members in the direction of conveyance. Claim
1 also recites that the assembled part is "configured to be
conveyed without rotation and guided through the movement of
said delivery member and said positioning member as one body
along said direction [of conveyance]." When read in light of
the appellants' disclosure, we understand and interpret the
above-quoted phrase to mean that the assembled part is moved
in the direction of conveyance with substantially no angular
translation, e.g., no twisting.
Lachaussee discloses a cartridge-making machine on which
a transfer device according to his invention is provided. The
work stations necessary for making the cartridges are
distributed along a table 1 and cases 2 serving to make the
cartridges are brought to the table 1 by a lever 17 mounted on
the axle 8 (on the left looking at Figure 3) and are displaced
to the right in succession. The cases are displaced on the
table 1 by a transfer device, comprising a rake 3, a matrix
bar 4, a retractable guide bar 5 and a straight edge 6. The
rake 3 consists of a shaft equipped with teeth 41 engaging on
bearings 14. The matrix bar 4 consists of a bar extending
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