Appeal No. 2004-1088 Page 2
Application No. 09/805,202
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates generally to conveyors and, more particularly, to
extendable conveyors for loading products into, or unloading products from a truck
trailer, or the like (specification, p. 1). A copy of the dependent claims under appeal is
set forth in the appendix to the appellants' brief. Claim 1, the only independent claim on
appeal, reads as follows:
An extendable conveyor for conveying articles between a particular
location and a selectable variable location, comprising:
a support structure;
a mechanically extendable section which is extendable along a
longitudinal axis between a fully retracted position and a fully extended position,
said mechanically extendable section supported in a cantilever fashion by said
support structure, said mechanically extendable section having a conveying
surface; and,
a user interface section which is horizontally adjustable with respect to
said longitudinal axis of said extendable section, wherein said user interface
section is supported in a cantilever fashion by said mechanically extendable
section.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Weir 3,819,068 June 25,1974
McWilliams 3,885,682 May 27, 1975
Gilmore et al. (Gilmore) 5,351,809 Oct. 4, 1994
Claims 1 to 5, 10, 12 and 56 to 82 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over McWilliams in view of Weir.
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