Appeal No. 98-2164 Page 6
Application No. 08/587,931
(Fed. Cir. 1983)). Here, consistent with the appellant's
specification, we can think of no circumstances under which the
artisan would construe the horizontally extending projections
28a depicted by Lautenschläger in Fig. 3 to "extend upwardly"
merely because they are vertically spaced above the
horizontally extending flanges 24. Moreover, with respect to
the structure depicted by Lautenschläger in
Fig. 3, the projections 28a extends from the vertical web 20
(rather than from the horizontal flange 24 as claimed) and the
grooves 30 are in the edges 32 of the base 14 and face
outwardly (rather than in the bottom surface of the base and
facing downwardly as claimed).
As to the appellant's argument (3), there is absolutely
nothing in Lautenschläger which would suggest a fixing device
as set forth in the last four lines of claim 11 that includes
a non-rigid structure sufficient to enable, during
assembly of said drawer and before mounting of said
rear wall, tilting of said side walls away from each
other without separation of said side walls from said
front panel.
In fact, Lautenschläger discloses no specific fixing devices
whatsoever, and instead merely states that the front may be
joined to the sides by conventional known hardware (see col. 3,
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