Appeal No. 1998-0331
Application No. 08/297,257
F.2d 1540, 1553, 220 USPQ 303, 312-13 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert.
denied, 469 U.S. 851 (1984).
Accordingly, we will not sustain the standing 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 rejection of claims 1 and 10 or of claims 2, 4 and 14
dependent on claim 1 or of claims 11 and 12 dependent on
claim 10.
Claims 5 through 9
We will also not sustain the 35 U.S.C. § 103 rejection of
claims 5 through 9.
Independent claim 5 is directed to a multiple spindle bar
machine comprising, inter alia, a rotatable cylindrical
spindle carrier having a throughbore aligned with a
longitudinal axis of the spindle carrier and a spindle drive
shaft extending through the spindle carrier throughbore
including a generally cylindrical hollow cavity co-axially
extending through the length of the drive shaft, a fluid
coupling at one end of the drive shaft for injecting
pressurized fluid into the hollow cavity and a fluid coupling
means at the opposite end of the drive shaft for routing fluid
from the drive shaft hollow cavity to a spindle carrier
interior manifold.
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