Appeal No. 2002-2074
Application No. 09/494,965
(a) providing:
(i) a tubular member for directing the projectile out
from an open end of the tubular member;
(ii) a projectile carrier having a cross-sectional size
substantially equal to that of the tubular member;
(iii) a projectile having a cross-sectional size less
than that of the tubular member; and
(iv) a charge of compressed fluid;
(b) loading the projectile into the tubular member so that
the projectile is adjacent to the projectile carrier
(c) positioning the projectile carrier in a firing position
within the tubular member; and
(d) rapidly releasing the charge of compressed fluid into
the tubular member so that the compressed fluid acts on the
projectile carrier and accelerates the projectile carrier and the
projectile through the tubular member, said projectile being thus
propelled from the tubular member along the trajectory.
THE PRIOR ART
The references relied on by the examiner to support the
rejections remaining on appeal are:
Garrett 2,499,379 Mar. 7, 1950
Sweeney et al. (Sweeney) 3,791,303 Feb. 12, 1974
Wood 5,337,726 Aug. 16, 1994
O’Brien 6,202,636 Mar. 20, 2001
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 54 and 55 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as
being anticipated by Sweeney.
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