Appeal No. 1997-4213
Application No. 08/359,407
be displayed are carried. According to the appellant, if too
much weight is placed on the arm, the clip will tend to slip
upwardly and off of the edge of the display panel, or the clip
may be knocked off of this edge if it is accidentally bumped
(specification, page 1). The objective of the appellants’
invention is to solve this problem. As manifested in claim 1,
the invention comprises a clip having a slot to receive an
edge portion of a paperboard panel, an integrally molded arm
extending from the clip for carrying the articles, and an
integrally molded tooth projecting from the clip, the tooth
having a relatively sharp end portion adapted to bite into the
edge portion so as to resist removal of the clip from the edge
portion and having an inclined surface adapted to slidably
engage the edge portion when the clip is being slipped onto
the edge portion.
The appealed claims stand rejected as being unpatentable
over the combined teachings of O’Brien, Brozak and Fearing.
O’Brien discloses a hanger that can be of molded plastic
(column 4, lines 42-44). It is adapted to engage the edge of
an aperture in a display panel by means of a clip, and to hold
articles for display on an integrally molded arm. O’Brien
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