Appeal No. 97-1092
Application 08/412,491
Reference is made to the appellant’s main and reply
briefs (Paper Nos. 11 and 13) and to the examiner’s main and
supplemental answers (Paper Nos. 12 and 14) for the respective
positions of the appellant and the examiner with regard to the
merits of this rejection.
Magnenat, the examiner’s primary reference, discloses an
extensible kitchen faucet comprising a mixer housing 1, a
control lever 2, a spout 3, a flexible water conduit 4, a
handle 5 and a head 11 (see Figure 1). As described by
Magnenat,
[t]he head 11 . . . comprises a body 15 . . .
and comprises fixing means, generally a threading,
for the flexible conduit 4. This upstream end
comprises a water entry chanel [sic] 18, opening
into a first chamber 19. This first chamber 19 is
connected by means of a passage 20 to a second
chamber 21, also located in the body 15 of the head
11.
The lower face of the body 15 of the head 11
comprises two outlets openings 24, 25, preferably
having the same diameter, provided with a threading
permitting fixing an aerator 22 or a shower head 23
therein. . . .
The body 15 comprises further a wall 26
separating the outlet aperture 25 of the first
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