Appeal No. 1999-2831 Page 2
Application No. 08/703,435
The appellant's invention relates to deployment
mechanisms for moving aircraft auxiliary airfoils such as
leading edge slats or trailing edge flaps relative to main
airfoils (specification, p. 1). A substantially correct copy
of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the
appellant's brief. 1
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Burnelli 1,917,428 July 11,
1933
Cole 4,471,928 Sep.
18, 1984
(Cole '928)
Cole 0 045 987 Feb.
17, 1982
(Cole '987) (European Patent Application)
Claims 1 and 6 to 8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
102(b) as being anticipated by Burnelli.
1In the appendix, Claim 1, line 13, the phrase "wherein
said support rollers are" should be inserted prior to
"rotatably."
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