Appeal No. 2002-0538
Application 09/220,468
THE PRIOR ART
The references relied on by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
Uehling 3,641,766 Feb. 15, 1972
Cureton et al. (Cureton) 4,702,070 Oct. 27, 1987
Coffinberry et al. (Coffinberry) 5,918,458 Jul. 6, 1999
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 1, 2 and 6 through 21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Uehling in view of Cureton.
Claims 3 through 5 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Uehling in view of Cureton and
Coffinberry.
Attention is directed to the appellant’s main and reply
briefs (Paper Nos. 12 and 14) and to the examiner’s answer (Paper
No. 13) for the respective positions of the appellant and the
examiner with regard to the merits of these rejections.
DISCUSSION
Uehling, the examiner’s primary reference, discloses a
turbojet gas engine 10 comprising a housing 12, a compressor 14,
a combustion system 16, a turbine 18, a tail pipe 19 and an
exhaust nozzle 20. As is conventional, both the compressor 14
and turbine 18 include alternating rows of rotating blades and
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