Appeal No. 2001-0045 Page 10
Application No. 09/103,347
As also is evident from Anderson’s Figure 2, the spaced equipment mounting
structures (19, 18 and 20) jointly constitute side wall structures of said mounting rack
interior space, as is recited in claim 4.
Claim 5 augments the structure of claim 1 by reciting that the skeleton structure
includes cross piece structures bracing the vertical uprights and the spaced equipment
mounting structure. The cross piece structures find correspondence in cross ties 14
(Figure 3).
As for claim 6, Anderson’s Figure 4 shows a base structure carrying the spaced
vertical uprights and the spaced equipment mounting structures.
Independent claim 10 is directed to a rack for mounting equipment, composed of
a seismically sound skeleton having spaced vertical uprights supplemented by distinct
spaced equipment mounting structures, as were discussed above with regarding the
new rejection of claim 1. Claim 10 further recites means for mounting the equipment
and having first elongate sections (Anderson’s vertical unistruts 19) extending along the
spaced vertical uprights, and elongate second sections (mounting channels 20)
extending along the first sections (the claim does not require that the mounting
channels be directly attached to the first elongate sections) and constituting side wall
structures of a mounting rack interior space in lateral extension of the vertical uprights,
as was explained above with regard to the new rejection of claim 1.
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