Appeal No. 97-3707
Application 08/595,910
(fig 9), by riveting the adjacent ends together (fig
6), or by a link (fig 7). The device may have a
scalloped or roughened outer surface for gripping
purposes (36, fig 3). The inner surface of the
device may be ribbed, roughened or toothed in order
to grip the object. The teeth may be made from
metal.
The examiner concedes that Fox does not meet the
limitation in independent claim 9 requiring a plurality of
finger loops (answer, page 3). In this regard, the Fox device
includes but a single finger loop in the form of member 16.
Delsack discloses a metal or hard plastic finger wrench
for threading and unthreading articles such as nuts and bolts.
The wrench comprises
a pair of slidingly interconnected substantially
flat and coplanar jaw members, finger-engageable
formations on the respective jaw members, such as
finger openings in the respective jaw members, or
depressions at the outer ends of the respective jaw
members, and substantially coplanar substantially
parallel gripping edges on the jaw members between
the finger formations, the jaw members having a
closed position in which the gripping edges are in
substantial abutment, or closely spaced apart, and
the jaw members being movable from the closed
position progressively to increase the distance
between the gripping edges and provide an opening
into which the article can be fitted with the
gripping edges embracing the article whereby torque
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