Appeal No. 1997-0500
Application 08/404,704
the bezel means. Claims 15 and 30 recite the “bezel means
extracting said gauge from the instrument panel.” Independent
claim 16 recites that the bezel means has a retention means
for coaction with the gauge. Thus, all the claims on appeal
clearly require that the bezel act to extract the gauge from
the instrument panel under certain circumstances. In claim 1,
the gauge extraction means must extend through the aperture
which is not suggested by Leone even if the entire device is
removable from base 18. Claims 15 and 31 recite that the
gauge is removed based on different circumferential positions
of the bezel. Leone’s bezel has no gauge extraction means
which are a function of the circumferential position of the
bezel. Claim 16 recites that the finger means of the bezel
means must extend through the aperture. Even if the entire
device of Leone was removable from the base, there would be no
finger means in the aperture for coaction with the gauge
means.
Since the bezel of Leone does not have a gauge
extraction means associated with it as recited in each of the
independent claims, and since the bayonet fastener of
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