Appeal No. 1998-3353
Application 08/692,711
references and each of the appealed claims in the instant
application. Considering appealed claim 21 as an example,
the recitation of an “actuator projection structure . . .
extending parallel to said axis” appears to be broad
enough to read on the pawl-engaging pin 18 in Froeschl’s
mechanism and at least one of the pawl-engaging lugs 41
in Gantz’s mechanism. It therefore
appears that at least claim 21 in the instant application
differs from each of the Gantz and Froeschl references
merely by reciting that ratchet mechanism has a bore for
receiving the shank of the driver. Herman appears to
contain a teaching of this feature.
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