Appeal No. 98-1252 Page 8
Application No. 08/642,184
1 for storing toothpaste having a nozzle means at one end
thereof (see Fig. 2), a cap means 10 cooperating with the
nozzle means for selectively opening and closing the nozzle
means and a dental floss dispenser comprising a housing 2 for
storing dental floss, a top wall (the wide-angled frusto-
conical surface 9 depicted in Figs. 2 and 3), a removable
bottom wall 7, a side wall (the cylindrical side wall depicted
in Fig. 2) and means (the steeply angled frusto-conical surface
or socket 9 depicted in Figs. 2 and 3) which is "adjacent" to
the top wall for attaching the housing to the cap means 10 in a
press-fit relation (see column 2 lines 41 and 42; column 3,
lines 30-33). As we have noted above, the protrusion 6 (which
serves as a handle for removing the removable bottom wall 7)
would appear to prevent the dispenser from standing completely
upright or squarely on a planar surface.
White, however, teaches a closure or cap for a flexible
tube with a "bottom surface" which "will form a broad flat
surface sufficiently large" (page 1, column 1, lines 52 and 53)
for the purpose of providing
a broad base for the tube on which it will stand
upright, permitting of more convenient disposal that
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