Appeal No. 96-4017
Application 08/217,544
Viewing Figure 3 of the application drawings and the
statements on page 1 of the specification (lines 18-23), we
understand that a drawback of the prior art was that when the
hook member on the elongate body member (F) was engaged with the
steering wheel, the right-hand end of the body member, as seen in
Figure 3, was canted at an angle towards the space within the
vehicle to be occupied by a rider or passenger, thus making it
"liable to collide with a rider coming in the car." To overcome
this drawback, appellant provided the steering wheel antitheft
device of the application (e.g., Figure 8) with a hook member
(12) provided as an intermediate part of the body member (1)
and so oriented that the body member (1) essentially aligns with
the plane of the steering wheel (B) when the steering lock is
attached to the steering wheel, thus significantly reducing any
possibility that a rider or passenger entering the right side
of the vehicle might collide with the right-hand end of the
body member (1) and be injured. See appellant's specification,
page 5, lines 7-15.
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