Appeal No. 2000-2025
Application 08/953,878
in the hole, if the substitution were made.
Rejection (3)
We will not sustain this rejection, since the additional
references applied, Hyman or Fischer, do not overcome the
deficiencies in rejections (1) and (2) discussed above.
Remand to the Examiner
Claims 1, 5 and 6 appear to be generic to both species
disclosed by appellant, in that they include within their
scope a combination in which the nut is the anchored member.
We therefore remand this case to the examiner pursuant to 37
CFR 1.196(a) to consider whether any of said claims should be
rejected under § 103(a) on the ground that it would have been
obvious, in the interest of production efficiency and/or
economy, to use internally threaded inserts or rivets to
provide the threaded holes in the core 37 of Heth into which
the bolts 39 are screwed. Such devices are well known in the
prior art; exemplary are the “Rivnuts” and “Lok-Skrus”
described in the attached publication.4
4 Airframe and Powerplant Mechanics General Handbook (Fed.
Aviation Admin. 1970), pp. 131 to 133.
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