Appeal No. 96-3842
Application 08/489,696
portion adapted to be secured under a flange in said dividing
element” and recites both first and second attachment members
wherein the first attachment member is adapted to attach the
dual beam contact to the dividing element “at said first side
of said dividing element” and the second attachment member is
adapted to attach the dual beam contact to the dividing
element “at said second side of said dividing element.” The
examiner (answer, page 3), presumably referring to Figure 10
of Sterling, has taken the position that Sterling shows a
first contact beam having “a distal end portion adapted to be
secured under a flange in said dividing element” at (46) and
first and second attachment members at (24) and (26). We do
not agree. In the first place, the projection (46) of the
dual beam contact seen in Figure 10 of Sterling is not “a
distal end portion” of the first contact beam (28), but is
instead the proximal portion of the first contact beam at or
adjacent the elbow portion of the contact. Secondly, there is
no indication in Sterling, or reason to conclude, that the
intermediate portion (26) of the contact pointed to by the
examiner and the side/top (24) of the block (14) in Figure 10
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