Appeal No. 96-2987
Application 08/346,060
wires. The apparatus includes, inter alia, a tool having a member
for engaging a screw-on electrical connector in order to twist
the screw-on electrical connector onto the plurality of wires.
The apparatus further comprises indicia. In claim 1, the indicia
is required to be associated with the torque limiting device
indicating adjustments of the mechanism for a plurality of
combinations of quantities and sizes of wires to be connected by
the screw-on electrical connector. In claim 10, the indicia is
required to be on the apparatus indicating different torque
settings for the mechanism which indicia designate a number and
size of wires to be connected.
The difficulty we have with the examiner’s rejections is
that the evidence fails to support a conclusion of obviousness.
Thus, for the reasons more fully explained below, we are
constrained to reverse each of the rejections before us.
Tuttle (column 1, lines 18 through 22) teaches a power
driven wrench for wire connectors and reveals that proper
connection torque is difficult to achieve when many wires are
connected together. Thus, according to Tuttle, wrenches have been
developed to ensure that all connections are properly torqued.
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