Appeal No. 2006-1364
Application No. 10/218,952
We reverse the aforementioned rejection.
Claim 1, which is the sole independent claim, requires that
a transmission module is substantially enclosed within a casing,
and that a creeper module is substantially enclosed within a
housing that is detachably mountable to an external portion of
the casing.
The examiner relies upon an unlabeled portion near the
center of Mann’s figure 3 as corresponding to the appellants’
transmission module, and relies upon Mann’s housing 1 in that
figure as corresponding to the appellants’ casing (answer,
page 4). The examiner relies upon Mann’s friction clutch (9, 10;
figure 2) as corresponding to the appellants’ creeper module, and
relies upon housing 1 in that figure as corresponding to the
appellants’ housing (answer, page 5). The examiner argues that
because there are what appear to be seals in the upper and lower
left regions of figure 2 between the portion of housing 1 relied
upon as corresponding to the appellants’ casing and the portion
of housing 1 relied upon as corresponding to the appellants’
housing, the housing portion is detachably mountable to the
US 3,359,833 to Flinn is withdrawn in the examiner’s answer (page 3).
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