Appeal No. 95-1405
Application 08/095,276
DECISION ON APPEAL
Appellants have appealed to the Board from the examiner’s
final rejection of claims 21 to 28, which constitute all the
claims remaining in the application.
Representative claim 21 is reproduced below:
21. An electrical busing connector comprising:
a housing;
bus bars mounted in the housing having terminals
extending from the housing; and
a plurality of sponge floats located between the housing
and portions of the bus bars, the sponge floats being
resiliently deformable to enable the bus bars to move in the
housing in a limited range of movement such that the bus bars
can be adjusted relative to the housing by deformation of the
sponge floats.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Carlson 2,468,614 Apr. 26,
1949
Edmunds 2,766,405 Oct. 9,
1956
Fisher 2,786,152 Mar. 19,
1957
Davis 3,726,988 Apr. 10,
1973
All claims on appeal stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103. As evidence of obviousness, the examiner relies upon
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