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Requirements for Unity of Application - Japan Patent Office

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[Example 20]<br />

[Title <strong>of</strong> the Invention]<br />

Magazine <strong>of</strong> workpieces (contact lens) and feeding device including the magazine<br />

[Claims]<br />

1. A magazine holding many work pieces, comprising <strong>of</strong> an opening to take out work pieces<br />

(37) consecutively at one end; uncoupling-fastening devices (39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44) set up<br />

close to the end, wherein the uncoupling-fastening devices engage with the work pieces at<br />

the point nearest to this end; wherein the work pieces consist <strong>of</strong> a fastening member (43)<br />

including a raised portion (39) which permits the work pieces in question to be uncoupled<br />

from this point and pass through the opening; wherein the raised portion matches an<br />

opening set up on the flank close to the end and can pass through the opening; wherein the<br />

free end <strong>of</strong> the raised portion is brought engages with the work pieces. (See Figure 1.)<br />

2. A feeder(4) to supply work pieces to the collet (3), a machine tool, consisting <strong>of</strong> a magazine<br />

described in Claim 1 and a loader(12) which is … …<br />

(See Figure 1, 2.)<br />

[Excerpt from Detailed Description <strong>of</strong> the Invention and Drawings]<br />

This invention relates to an apparatus to supply the material <strong>for</strong> contact lenses to a machine<br />

tool, particularly an apparatus to supply work pieces to the collet, a machine tool with their<br />

positions set correctly.<br />

10 magazine<br />

12 loader<br />

Figure 1 Figure 2<br />

1 table<br />

2 machine holder<br />

3 collet<br />

4 feeder<br />

5 ejector<br />

6 back plate<br />

[Explanation]<br />

Though the technical fields <strong>of</strong> the specified invention and the related invention (Claim 2) are<br />

respectively “a magazine” and “a feeding device”, it is highly appropriate that the art <strong>of</strong> the<br />

<strong>for</strong>mer should be applied to the technical field <strong>of</strong> the latter; there<strong>for</strong>e the technical fields <strong>of</strong> both<br />

inventions are technically and directly associated with each other, and the industrial fields <strong>of</strong><br />

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