Appeal No. 1997-0906
Application 08/292,666
surface of the trough in a "radial configuration" with the
outer surface of the handle.
The Examiner applies Darlow solely for its teaching of
locating spurs on the side wall for engaging the side of the
operating handles (EA4; EA6). Darlow shows a tie bar in which
the end of the handles appears to abut the inside surface of
the tie bar (figures 3 and 4). The Examiner does not rely on
this teaching in the rejection. If he did, it would be
necessary to explain how and why one of ordinary skill in the
art would modify Adamson, which the Examiner has selected as
the primary reference and which discloses a floating
relationship between the handle tie and the handles and
handles extending through the handle tie, to have an abutting
relationship. We do not find such a reason why one of
ordinary skill in the art would have sought to modify Adamson
to provide an abutting relationship since this would be
contrary to the purpose of Adamson.
Kakisako is applied because it shows a handle tie without
apertures. It does not appear that claim 1 precludes having
windows in the "inner surface" of the handle tie (like Darlow)
as long as the outer surface of the handles still abuts the
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