Appeal No. 96-4097
Application 08/138,634
cover which fits over 16 and along with blocker 24, prevents
removal of the screw. This is unlike the claimed
apparatus, in which the apertures are formed in the slot
engagement member and in the housing carrying the pin, which
also extends into the slot and
coacts with the slot engagement member to prevent its removal
from the slot.
The fastener disclosed by Lalanne has a shaft 1 carrying
at its end a bar 3 which is passed through slot 10 and is
turned 90 degrees to prevent removal (Fig. 2). A member 5 is
rotatably mounted on shaft 1 and has a pin 9 which fits the
slot 10. If one of ordinary skill were to substitute
Lalanne's fastener for Wilson's screw connector 20, the lower
end of member 16 might be modified to include pin 9 of
Lalanne. However, in accordance with Wilson's disclosure, the
aperture alignable with the aperture in member 16 would still
be the aperture in cover 26, there being no teaching or
suggestion in either reference of providing an aperture in the
connector per se which would be alignable with the aperture 22
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