Appeal No. 1999-1718
Application 08/786,742
THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a “row crop debris clearing
apparatus for agricultural usage” (specification, page 1).
Claim 1 is illustrative and reads as follows:1
1. Apparatus for use with a farm implement for clearing
debris from a path in a field during forward movement of the
farming implement, said apparatus comprising:
a frame structure having a support;
a pair of rotatable clearing disks, each having an inward
and outward side, each disk having a generally circular outer
shape, a generally concave outward side surface and a
plurality of backswept notches in its outer periphery;
a pair of disk mounts for attaching said pair of clearing
disks to said support, said disk mounts being oriented to
position each of said pair of disks to converge adjacent one
another at the forward reach of said disks, the rearward reach
of said disks being spaced apart from one another so that the
general planes of the disks are angled outwardly from the
forward reach to the rearward reach thereof;
1 The following informalities are deserving of correction
in the event of further prosecution before the examiner: in
claim 2, the recitation that the “support” comprises a “shank”
conflicts with the underlying specification (see page 5) which
describes the two as separate elements; in claims 11 and 16,
the term “said disk mounts” lacks a proper antecedent basis
and there is a double recitation of the clearing disks; and in
claim 21, the specified claim dependency is from canceled
claim 20.
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