Appeal No. 97-4185 Page 8
Application No. 08/602,274
Claim 1
Independent claim 1 recites a glove drying device
comprising, inter alia, a substantially planar hand-shaped
form, a display area and a ridge structure which extends
"around a periphery of said planar hand-shaped structure [sic,
form]." Claim 1 further recites that the substantially planar
hand-shaped form includes a palm portion, a plurality of
finger elements and a thumb element connected to the palm
portion by a spring member. Claim 1 also recites that the
display area is attached to and extends beyond a lower portion
of the planar hand-shaped form and consists of a substantially
continuous surface for receiving indicia.
In applying the above-noted for obviousness, we reach the
conclusion that it would have been obvious to one of ordinary
skill in the art at the time the invention was made to modify
the glove drier of Ross by flexibly connecting the thumb-
supporting element to the palm-supporting area in the same
plane as the palm-supporting area as suggested and taught by
Sutton for the advantage of easily fitting a glove onto the
glove drier.
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