Appeal No. 98-0363
Application 08/740,389
a single, centrally located attachment
means instead of two is known. This
clearly cuts down on material and
installation costs. Based on this
teaching, it would have been well within
the purview of one of ordinary skill in the
art in which both of these references
reside to modify Golkowski to have one,
centrally located attachment. Once this
combination is made, the aforementioned
rotating would clearly occur. . . . To
summarize this point, Carman is not
combined to provide a teaching of a
rotating screen bar but only to teach the
use of a single attachment means and
Golkowski, as so modified, provides for the
rotatability of the bar. [Answer, pages 4
and 5.]
As the examiner apparently recognizes, Golkowski provides
a fastening means in the form of two laterally spaced apart
tongues 58 having apertures 70 therein which cooperate with
two slidable plungers 60 having pin portions 64 on the sash to
fasten the free end of the screen to the sash. In order to
overcome this deficiency, it appears that the examiner is
proposing to single out the "concept" of single point
attachment from the teachings of Carman and incorporate this
"concept" into Golkowski by providing only a single strap with
a single pin portion at the midpoint of the sash and, thus,
arrive at a structure which will provide pivoting movement as
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