Appeal No. 96-4021
Application 08/289,300
movement along a tubular support arm 30 via a stud 42 which
extends through a longitudinal slot 43 in the arm. The armrest
element can be fixed with respect to the slot by means of a wing
nut 44 threaded onto the free end of the stud.
Rogers discloses a display rack comprising an upright
tubular supporting post 6, a bearing 12 adjustably disposed
within the post, and a rod 9 rotatably received by the post and
resting on the bearing. The position of the bearing is fixed by
a set screw 13 which extends through a slot 7 in the post.
Rogers teaches that this construction allows the rod 9 to be
vertically adjusted with respect to the post to accommodate the
display of articles having various lengths (see page 1, lines 51
through 63).
In explaining the first of the rejections on appeal,
the examiner concludes that it would have been obvious to one of
ordinary skill in the art “to make the support member of Van
Seenus rotatable as shown in Danziger in order to make it easier
of [sic, for] a user to enter and exit the seat” (final
rejection, page 2), and “to connect the armrest to the support of
[the] modified Van Seenus [armrest assembly] by a slot in the
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