Appeal No. 2003-0679 Page 2
Application No. 09/730,163
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a mowing implement with at least two
mowing units, at least one swath former and a mobile carrier frame (specification, p. 1).
A copy of the dependent claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the
appellant's brief. Claim 1, the only independent claim on appeal, reads as follows:
In a mowing implement including a mobile central frame, a pair of mowing
units respectively mounted to opposite sides of said central frame, and at least
one swath former being associated with one of said pair of mowing units, the
improvement comprising:
support structure mounting said at least one swath former to said frame,
exclusive of said one of said pair of mowing units, for movement between an
operating position, wherein it intercepts crop delivered by said one of said pair of
mowing units and directs this crop toward the other of said pair of mowing units,
and a non-operating position wherein it is located so as to permit crop delivered
by said one of said pair of mowing units to fall onto the ground.
The prior art of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed
claims is:
Carmichael 4,078,366 Mar. 14, 1978
Allen 4,932,197 June 12, 1990
Welsch et al. 6,145,289 Nov. 14, 2000
(Welsch)
Freudendahl EP 0 882 386 A2 Dec. 9, 1998
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