Appeal No. 96-1419
Application 08/081,971
pending in the application.
Appellants’ invention relates to a mirror-mounting bracket
adapted to be secured to the side door of a vehicle over a wing
window opening in the door. Appellants’ specification describes
the bracket as including not only the unitary bracket part (18,
20) or base member, as it is called in appealed claim 8, per se,
but also the means for fastening the base member to the door,
namely the fastening bolts (78), the nuts (80) and the mounting
plate (76). Although not expressly described in appellants’
specification, it appears that the wing window of the vehicle
door must be removed in order to mount the bracket on the door in
the embodiment in which the mounting plate is disposed on the
interior side of the door, thus requiring the fastening bolts to
extend through the wing window opening and through apertures in
the mounting plate to secure the plate to the base member which
lies on the exterior side of the door.
The base member of the bracket is defined as having a first
portion or member (18) and a second portion or member (20) which
are joined to each other by a hinge (70) to permit the second
portion to be pivoted from a closed position (see Figure 5 of the
drawings) to an opened position (see Figure 4 of the drawings) to
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