Appeal No. 1999-0718
Application 08/594,149
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's
final rejection of claims 1 through 6. Claims 8 and 9, the
only other claims remaining in the application, stand with-
drawn from further consideration under 37 CFR § 1.142(b).
Claim 7 has been canceled.
Appellant’s invention relates to a pair of hand
grips that can be used to handle and manipulate bulk materi-
als, cartons and boxes. Each of the grips has on one side
thereof an ergo-nomically designed handhold and on the oppo-
site side a removable array of pointed projections. As noted
on page 4 of the specifi- cation, an object of the invention
is to pick up cartons and boxes without leaving significant
damage to the carton, box or other lifted piece. This is
achieved by having the array of pointed projections on each of
the grips provided in the form of fine, almost needle-like
points located on the contact side of the grip. A copy of
claims 1 and 2 on appeal, as reproduced from appellant’s
Appendix to the brief, is attached to this decision.
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