Appeal 2007-1902
Application 09/398,006
We find Farnsworth further identifies the cord inclination angle of the
cord layers by illustration in Fig. 2 and by the letters “H” denoting the high
inclination angle cord layer and “L” and “L′” denoting low inclination angle
cord layers in Figs. 3a-c (Farnsworth page 2, ll. 10-12 and 46-52). We find
one of ordinary skill in this art would have applied the letters to the cord
layers in Fig. 2 such that low inclination angle innermost cord layer 4 is L,
low inclination angle middle cord layer 3 is L′, and high inclination angle
outermost cord layer 2 is H. Thus, the triangulated belt assemblies from
innermost to outermost cord layers is L/L′/H in Fig. 2, wherein L is the
widest cord layer and H is the narrowest; H/L/L′ in Fig. 3a, wherein L is the
widest cord layer and L′ is the narrowest; L′/L/H in Fig. 3b, wherein H is
the widest cord layer and L′ is the narrowest; and L/L′/H in Fig. 3c, wherein
H is the widest cord layer and L′ is the narrowest.
We find one of ordinary skill in this art would have observed that in
Farnsworth’s illustrative triangulated belt assemblies, among other things,
the high inclination angle cord layer H is the outermost layer in three of the
four embodiments, which configuration is preferred by Farnsworth; the low
inclination angle cord layers L and L′ are always grouped together as a cross
cord layer; each of cord layers L and L′ can be located next to H, signifying
the direction of the cords in the low inclination angle cord layer next to H
can be in the same or different direction relative to the equatorial plane as
the cords in cord layer H; and the width of the outermost layer H can be
greater than the width of the adjacent middle layer whether L or L′. In no
Farnsworth embodiment is the outermost cord layer narrower than the
innermost cord layer and at the same time wider than the middle cord layer.
In Farnsworth Fig. 3b, the direction of the cords of middle cord layer L is the
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