Appeal No. 98-1451 Page 5
Application No. 08/529,187
stand 10 includes a base 12, a post 14, an A-frame 30,
bearings 24 and 40, a tubular bearing 20 and a saddle 36. As
shown in Figures 4-6, a mandrel shaft 6 and propeller 8 can be
accommodated in the tubular bearing 20 and the saddle 36 of
the stand 10.
Egigian discloses a rail saver pad. As shown in Figures
1-2, a protective pad 10 is disposed on the top of the rails
14-16 of a pick-up truck 10. Thereafter, a camper shell 12
can be mounted thereon with the pad maintaining a good water
seal. As shown in Figure 3, the pad 100 includes a strip 105
of magnetic material to hold the pad on the rails 14-16.
The examiner found (answer, pp. 3-4) that Wilger
"discloses the claimed invention except for the magnetic
material attached to the support member." Thereafter the
examiner determined (answer, p. 4) that
[i]t would have been obvious to one having ordinary skill
in the art at the time the invention was made to have
modified the Wilger et al. support device to include a
magnetic material as taught by Egigian for the purpose of
joining two components magnetically to prevent their
relative movement to each other.
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