Appeal No. 1999-1779
Application No. 08/480,561
bearing for applying force from a driving mover to move a
driven object along a drive direction, that is, a direction
perpendicular to the planes of the facing surfaces of the two
elements. Nor is one of the elements “freely” movable with
respect to the other, as evidenced by the presence of the two
adjustment screw means that engage (as T) or are attached (as
M) to the elements, thus fixing them together. In addition,
there is no disclosure in Bardocz of moving the two elements
in the “drive direction,” nor is there reason to conclude that
such movement is inherent. Thus, as might be expected,
Bardocz fails to disclose a driving mover and a driven object
which interact with the two elements, or the “means for
receiving driving contact from the driving mover at the
driving bearing element” and “means for applying driving
contact from the driven bearing element to the driven object.”
This being the case, Bardocz does not anticipate the
subject matter of claim 1, and we will not sustain this
rejection of claim 1 or of claims 2-7, which depend therefrom.
Independent claim 19 also is directed to a wobble-
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