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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 .
Priority
Receipt is acknowledged of certified copies of papers required by 37 CFR 1.55.
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, 2, and 10 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Davis (US Patent No. 1,503,035).
Re: Claim 1, Davis discloses the claimed invention including a hand-cranked driving device, comprising a shooting component (2) and a hand crank (22), wherein the shooting component comprises a shell (2), a connecting shaft (10) rotatably penetrating through both sides of the shell (Fig. 1), a first groove body (12) and a second groove body (11) respectively fixed to both ends of the connecting shaft (Fig. 1), a piston rod (9) movably connected in the shell in a reciprocating manner (p. 2, lines 33-37, piston rod reciprocates), and a driving wheel (15) in driving connection to the piston rod through a driving component (11) (Fig. 5); a first clamping portion (14) is arranged on the first groove body, and a second clamping portion (15 includes a clamping face) clamped with the first clamping portion is arranged on the driving wheel (p. 2, lines 60-65, clamping portions clamped together via spring); and the hand crank comprises a connecting rod (16) (Fig. 1), and the connecting rod is detachably fixed (via 17) in the first groove body (Depicted in Fig. 1 and 5).
Re: Claim 2, Davis discloses the claimed invention including the first clamping portion is a pulling claw elastically stretching outward from the first groove body, the second clamping portion is an inner gear ring, and the pulling claw is unidirectionally clamped with the inner gear (Depicted in Fig. 5, (p. 2, lines 60-65, clutch faces inherently having a pulling claws and inner gear rings for unidirectional)
Re: Claim 10, Davis discloses the claimed invention including the shooting component of the hand-cranked driving device is fixedly mounted in the gun, openings are respectively formed in both sides of the gun (Depicted in Fig. 1), and opening ends of the first groove body and the second groove body in the shooting component are respectively fixed in the two openings (Depicted in Fig. 1, are fixed with the two openings via the connecting shaft).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3-9 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.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. The references cited on the PTO-892 provide additional examples of hand cranked dispensers.
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/CHARLES P. CHEYNEY/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3754
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