Appeal No. 2004-1541
Application No. 10/003,785
The ordinary meaning of "spaced," in turn, is defined as "to
organize or arrange with spaces between" or "to separate or keep
apart."1 Thus, we conclude that Appellant's claimed fastener
structure is separated or kept apart from Appellant's insert
means 12 along the length of Appellant's anchor plate 14.
Therefore, Appellant's claimed fastener structure must be offset
from the center of the insert means 12.
Returning to McSherry, we find that McSherry's bolt 18 is
received in the aperture 22 of the insert means 20 as seen in
McSherry's Figs. 11 and 19 and described in column 6, lines 42-
45. We find that McSherry's bolt 18 reads on the means for
connecting together the anchor plate means 31 and the insert
means 20 and adapted to urge the anchor plate means 31 and its
flat front surface toward and against the flat rear surface of
the insert means 20 and also flatly against said rear surface of
the wall 14 as recited in subparagraph c) of Appellant's claim 1.
However, McSherry's bolt 18 is located at the center of
McSherry's insert means 20 as best seen in Figs. 11 and 19.
Therefore, McSherry's bolt 18 is not separated or kept apart from
McSherry's insert means 20 along the length of McSherry's anchor
1 See Webster’s II New Riverside University Dictionary, 1984
Edition, page 1113 attached.
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