Appeal No. 1999-1812
Application No. 08/692,761
depend from claim 13. No other claims are currently pending
in the application.
Appellant’s invention pertains to a cable hoist
controller for use with multi-story scaffolding. An
understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading
of independent claim 13, which is reproduced in Appendix A to
appellant’s brief.
The single reference of record relied upon by the
examiner as evidence of obviousness is:
Naito 3,231,240 Jan. 25, 1966
Claims 3-6, 8, 9, 12 and 13 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Naito.
With reference to appellant’s Figures 1 and 3, claim 13
calls for a cable hoist comprising a support plate 16, a
driving sheave 24 rotatably mounted on the support plate, a
prime mover 12 for rotatably moving the sheave, a cable 32
located within a cable-receiving groove of the sheave, a
plurality of rollers 34 connected together by a plurality of
linkage means 42 such that the rollers are disposed about the
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