Appeal No. 96-4021
Application 08/289,300
McQUADE, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This appeal is from the final rejection of claims 35
through 38, 40, 41, 44, 46, 48 and 52 through 58. Claims 20, 22
through 25 and 27 through 34 stand allowed. Claims 39, 42, 43,
45, 47, 49 through 51, 59 and 60, the only other claims pending
in the application, have been indicated as containing allowable
subject matter, but stand objected to as depending from a
rejected base claim.
The subject matter on appeal relates to “an armrest
assembly for attachment to a chair” (specification, page 1).
Claim 44 is illustrative and reads as follows:
44. An armrest assembly for use with a chair having a
seat, said armrest assembly comprising an armrest engageable with
a portion of an arm of a person sitting on the seat of the chair,
and a one-piece tubular support member having an upright lower
portion connected with the seat of the chair and an upper portion
which extends transversely to said lower portion, said one-piece
tubular support member being rotatable about a central axis of
said upright lower portion of said one-piece tubular support
member under the influence of force transmitted from the arm of a
person sitting on the seat of the chair to said armrest, said
upper portion of said one-piece tubular support member including
surface means for defining a slot in said upper portion of said
one-piece tubular support member, said armrest extending into
said slot to guide movement of said armrest along said upper
portion of said one-piece tubular support member under the
influence of force transmitted from the arm of the person sitting
on the seat of the chair to said armrest.
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