Appeal No. 99-0612 Page 7
Application No. 08/772,958
We additionally note that the claims recite a "braze
bracket for being brazed to a tube or a duct member" having a
"braze surface". Pauli, on the other hand, discloses a hose3
guide. We find nothing in the disclosure of Pauli which would
indicate that the hose guide is a "braze bracket" of the type
described by the appellants on page 1 of the specification.
For the above reasons, we cannot sustain the 35 U.S.C. §
103 rejection of independent claims 1 and 8, or of claims 5
through 7 and 11 through 13 which depend therefrom.
As to the rejection of independent claim 14, we note that
claim 14 requires "a mounting plate having a curved braze
surface" and "at least one opening in said mounting plate."
While Pauli does disclose apertures (25, 26) in the hose
guide, these apertures are in the thin flat base member (20),
not in the arcuate collar member (30) which has the curved
surface. The examiner asserts that it would have been obvious
to provide the surface of the hose guide of Pauli with
openings "to make the device lighter, cheaper or to facilitate
cleaning." For the reasons discussed above, we find the
As described by the appellants, a "braze surface" is a surface which is brazed to another part3
(specification, page 1).
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