Appeal No. 98-2097
Application NO. 08/670,320
note that the title of the present invention is "SNAP-ON CAP."
Appellants inform us in the "BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION"
section of the specification (page 2) that "[i]n prior
designs, end caps
that had been used in fly fishing reels to secure the assembly
of
the spool to a shaft have been screwed to the spool hub." 2
According to appellants (specification, page 3), an "object of
the present invention" is "to supply a snap-on end cap which
requires no separate fasteners." As further explained in the
detailed description of the preferred embodiment
(specification, page 4),
It should be noted that the snap-acting
feature of the cap 40 makes it simple to
remove and replace and eliminates a
2Of record in the application file, is the patent to
Visockis (U.S. Patent No. 3,241,788). The plastic fishing
reel of this patent (Fig. 4) includes a "snap-on retaining
ring in the form of a split washer 48 received in groove 46
for retaining spool 22 on the frame" (column 2, lines 10
through 12).
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