Appeal No. 2000-0581
Application No. 08/429,155
and Poland and relies for this feature on the additional
teachings of Marti. Marti is directed to an apparatus for
positioning containers placed into a hopper. The apparatus
includes an upper moving disc 11 inclined to the vertical
which carries a series of parts 16 of different
characteristics, which extend radially and which define a
series of spaces designed to accept containers 9 in a lying
position. The parts 16 are joined to the disc 11 by inserting
an extreme axial section 18 into one of female sections 19
located in equidistant series on the disc 11 (column 7, lines
13-16). The examiner directs our attention to the "unnumbered
aligning pin means to the left and right of element 18 in
Figure 5."
Even assuming that the elements of Marti's parts 16
alluded to by the examiner are aligning pins, we are at a loss
to understand why one of ordinary skill in the field of
appellant's invention would have found any suggestion therein
to use aligning pins in mounting a fan blade tip to a fan
blade as the examiner proposes.
In establishing a prima facie case of obviousness, it is
incumbent upon the examiner to provide a reason why one of
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