DETAILED ACTION The Information Disclosure Statements filed on November 28, 2023 and May 27, 2024 have both been reviewed and considered by the Examiner. Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA. Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102 The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action: A person shall be entitled to a patent unless – (a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale , or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention. Claim(s) 1 , 6 -9 and 12-14 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102 (a)(1) as being anticipated by Kami (JPH 11147672 A) . Kami discloses a spooling system , generally shown in figure 1, for providing services by way of an elongate carrier, in the form of a flexible wiring harness shown in figure 2, to a remote ground vehicle 1. The services including at least two of data from a microcomputer 8, power from an AC voltage line shown in figure 1 and welding material from the components shown at the bottom of figure 1. The system is further comprised of a base 2 for receiving services to be provided to the ground vehicle and the base supports a turntable at the top of the base and allows the turntable to rotate with respect to the base . A spooling drum , shown in figures 1 and 5 is mounted on the turntable and is arranged to pay out and reel in the elongate carrier relative to the direction of movement of the ground vehicle. The automatic welding machine mounted on the vehicle is interpreted as a robot as the functions are automated. It is further interpreted that the welding machine is provided with welding fluids and gases from the tank depicted in figure 1. Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103 The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action: A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made. Claim (s) 2 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Kami (JPH 11147672 A) in view of Ge (US 2017/0066622) . Kami discloses the spooling system as described above. However, Kami does not show stops to prevent rotation of the turntable. Ge discloses a cord reel having a locking head 12 and arresting disc 10 that operate to stop rotation of the reel and therefore stops the pay out or take up of the cord. It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art, before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to have applied a locking head and arresting disc, like that of Ge, to a system like that of Kami, as a form of stops with the expected result of providing a safety mechanism to halt the rotation of the spool so as to prevent damage to the cable during the spooling process. Claim (s) 3 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Kami (JPH 11147672 A). Kami discloses the spooling system as described above. However, Kami does not show that the turntable is arranged to rotate through at least 100 degrees of an arc with respect to the base. It is well known in the art that cord reels and spools will have a span of rotation based on the application. It would have been an obvious design choice to one of ordinary skill in the art, before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to have applied a span of rotation of at least 100 degrees with the expected result of providing a rotation adequate enough to spool the cable. Claim s 4 , 10 and 15 recite that the system is adapted to be maneuverable within a reconfigurable manufacturing facility. This adaptation is interpreted as an intended use for the system and has not been given further patentable weight. Allowable Subject Matter Claims 5, 11 and 16 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims. 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