Appeal No. 1998-2416
Application 08/586,807
utilizing an enclosure which is mounted and
supported to be separate from, and
independent of, said machine tool will inherently
reduce vibrations ordinarily transmitted from said
enclosure to said tool during normal machining
operations [final rejection, pages 3 and 4].
The claim limitation at issue, however, requires the
enclosure to be mounted and supported to be separate from and
independent of the machine tool so that vibrations are “not
transmitted” (as opposed to being merely reduced) from the
enclosure to the machine tool. Zimmermann provides no
indication that the enclosure and machine tool disclosed
therein are related such that vibrations are not transmitted
from the enclosure to
the tool. Hence, Zimmermann does not overcome the above noted
deficiency of Todd with respect to the subject matter recited
in claim 21.
Accordingly, we shall not sustain the standing 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) rejection of claim 21, or of claims 3, 4, 6, 7 and
22 which depend therefrom, as being unpatentable over Todd in
view of Zimmermann.
III. Claim 15
Independent claim 15 recites a machine tool enclosure
comprising, inter alia, a plurality of housing shells
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