Appeal No. 2004-1193
Application 09/639,324
(12) of the tool is supported on bearings (32, 118), and at least
one of said bearings is supported in the manner described on page
4, lines 9-20, and in the paragraph bridging pages 12-13 of the
specification. Independent claim 1 is representative of the
subject matter on appeal and a copy of that claim may be found in
the Appendix to appellants’ brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Pew 3,873,863 Mar. 25, 1975
Wanner et al. (Wanner) 4,066,136 Jan. 3, 1978
Nichting 4,549,823 Oct. 29, 1985
Volz 5,839,349 Nov. 24, 1998
Sheedy 5,885,006 Mar. 23, 1999
Daniell 6,021,826 Feb. 8, 2000
Van Duyn 6,331,078 B1 Dec. 18, 2001
(filed May 19, 1999)
Claims 1 through 3, 14 and 15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Pew in view of Volz and
Nichting.
Claims 4 and 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Pew and Volz “as applied to claims 1 and
3 above,” and further in view of Van Duyn.
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