Appeal No. 97-4240
Application 08/294,074
laterally movable so as to permit the panel to be mounted in and
removed from the channels in the manner claimed. In fact, the
retaining members 27 in conjunction with the flanges 36 on the
posts actually form the channels.
In the embodiment of Fig. 3 of Polhamus, a panel (glass
sheet 41) is held in a groove in a bracket 39 that extends
between a flange 36 on each post 20 and a retainer member 34
(which is similar to the retainer member 27 of the Fig. 1
embodiment and is not disclosed as being compressible) that is in
turn fastened to each post by a cover 46. Thus, as is the case
in the embodiment of Fig. 1, the retainer members 34 in
conjunction with flanges 36 on the posts actually form the
channels. Although the bracket 39 is described as being of the
“snap-in” type (see column 2, line 61) and thus might possibly be
construed as being “compressible,” there is absolutely nothing in
Polhamus which either teaches or fairly suggests that this
bracket is “laterally movable” to the extent necessary to permit
the panel or glass sheet 41 to be manually mounted in and removed
from the channels in the posts in the manner claimed.
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