Appeal No. 2004-0241 Page 9
Application No. 09/773,366
Claims 17-20, which are dependent from claim 15, stand rejected on the basis of
Schubert in view of Manning ‘037, which was applied for teaching a stock feeder
mechanism comprising a detection system. As we determined above in evaluating the
Section 102 rejection of claim 15, Schubert fails to disclose or teach a brake system to
slow the speed of the feeder mechanism during the stock feeding operation.
Considering Schubert in the light of Section 103 does not alter this finding, for the
examiner has adduced no evidence to support a conclusion that it would have been
obvious to provide this feature in the Schubert system. Manning ‘037 fails to overcome
this deficiency, and therefore the present rejection cannot be sustained.
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