Appeal No. 2002-1023 Page 7
Application No. 09/387,399
subject matter recited in claim 7. We therefore will not sustain the rejection of
independent claim 7 or, it follows, of dependent claims 8, 11 and 12, which depend
from claim 7 and stand rejected on the same basis.
We reach the same conclusion, for the same reasons, with regard to
independent claim 39 and dependent claims 40 and 42, and independent claim 56,
which contain the same limitations, albeit in different terms, as claim 7.
The examiner added Wright to the other references in the rejection of dependent
claims 10 and 41 for its teaching of utilizing quick change gear sets for varying the
speed of a control shaft. Be this as it may, Wright fails to overcome the shortcomings
in the combination of the other references which we explained above. The rejection of
claims 10 and 41 also is not sustained.
CONCLUSION
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