Appeal No. 2002-0074 Page 8
Application No. 08/800,758
For the reasons set forth above, the decision of the examiner to reject claims 11
and 14 to 16 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) is affirmed.
The obviousness rejection
We sustain the rejection of claims 11 to 13, 15 and 16 under 35 U.S.C. § 103,
but not the rejection of claim 14.
Evans discloses a system for storing articles in a rack having a plurality of
shelves and removing them therefrom using a movable and adjustably elevated loading
conveyor. The storage areas in the rack are provided with slide assemblies adapted to
receive an article to be stored therein and the loading conveyor is movable to positions
relative to said rack which directly align articles carried therein with storage areas in the
rack so that the articles can be readily loaded and unloaded. As shown in the drawings
(Figures 1-10), the system includes (1) a storage rack 20 to hold thirty-six caskets 22
stacked for ready removal six high on six shelves in three parallel rows of two caskets
22 each, and (2) an elevator conveyor including a casket platform or conveyor pallet 24
constructed to removably carry normally two stacked caskets 22 and a forklift truck 26
which can raise or lower the pallet 24 to predetermined positions relative to the storage
rack 20 to load or unload caskets 22 therein. In order to facilitate movement of the
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