Appeal No. 2002-0894
Application No. 09/283,650
of ejecting load material (claims 23, 24 and 40), and a ground-
driven mobile work machine having an device for ejecting load
material (claims 25, 26 and 37-39). An understanding of the
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 21,
reproduced below (with emphasis added):
21. A load-carrying body for use with a mobile work
machine, comprising:
first and second opposed side walls;
a floor joining said side walls;
a movable ejector interposed between said side walls and
having a lower margin adjacent said floor and an upper margin,
said side walls, said floor, and said ejector together defining a
load cavity open at an end thereof;
an ejector actuator connected with said ejector for moving
said ejector toward said open end to eject load material from
said cavity through said open end, movement of said ejector
against said load material causing said ejector to tilt at its
upper margin toward said open end to press the lower margin of
said ejector against the floor of said body.
The single reference relied upon by the examiner in the
final rejection is:
Neyland 2,996,202 Aug. 15, 1961
Claims 21-26, 28-31 and 33-40 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 112, second paragraph, “as being indefinite for failing to
particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter
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