Appeal No. 99-0618 Page 3
Application No. 08/797,496
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a detachable shelf
extender for extending forward from the front edge of a
display shelf used to store and display merchandise in a
supermarket or similar environment. The shelf is a perf-board
shelf provided with a regular array of holes and a display
channel for accepting pricing and identifying information of
products displayed on the shelf. The shelf extender includes
a horizontally extending top surface provided with at least
one slot for receiving a fastener which passes through a hole
in the perf-board shelf to fasten the extender to the shelf.
This fastening arrangement provides a shelf extender which is
easily removable from the shelf and can be accepted by a
variety of shelves. An understanding of the invention can be
derived from a reading of exemplary claim 15, which appears in
the appendix to the appellant's brief.3
3The copies of claims 2 and 3 in the appendix to the
appellant's brief contain minor errors relative to the claims
as they appear in the file. In claim 2, lines 2 and 3, "in
the vicinity of" should be "proximate." In claim 3, line 3,
"a" should be deleted.
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