Appeal No. 97-4244
Application 08/347,141
were a bulky, fluffy material, when the attaching member of
Humiston was assembled to the fastener, the disk 28 would sink
down into the material to such an extent that it would then, in
the words of claim 6, be “accommodated within the thickness of
the second object so as not to form a thickened portion bulging
therefrom.” The disk 28 disclosed by Humiston therefore meets2
the limitations recited in the last three lines of claim 6.
Accordingly, the apparatus disclosed by Humiston
satisfies all the limitations of claim 6, and we will sustain the
rejection of that claim under § 102(b).
Claim 8
Claim 8 recites:
8. A magnetic lock device as claimed in claim 6,
wherein said curled edge is formed on the outer periphery of a
metal disk plate that is rigidly attached to said ferromagnetic
plate centrally thereof.
The examiner reads the recited metal disk plate on
plate 30 of the attaching device of Humiston, and takes the
position that the curled edge 26, 27 is “formed on” the outer
edge of plage 30 because, as we understand it, when the fastener
and attaching device are assembled together on second object 8
2While the center portion 32 of ring 30 might still bulge
from the second object 8, disk 28 would not.
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