Appeal No. 1996-3399
Application 08/295,150
THOMAS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
Appellant has appealed to the Board from the exam-
iner's final rejection of claims 49 through 60, the examiner
having indicated the allowance of claim 37.
Representative claim 49 is reproduced below:
49. An arrangement comprising:
In a building having rooms and a main power supply
system operative to distribute power line voltage from an
ordinary electric utility power line to an ordinary household
electrical outlet in each room; the power line voltage suffer-
ing from occasional periods of interruption; the improvement
comprising:
an auxiliary power supply system having an auxiliary
source of power operative to distribute an auxiliary voltage
to a special power outlet in each room; each power outlet
being operative to receive and disconnectably hold a special
power plug; the maximum amount of power extractable from any
one of the special power outlets being limited so as to be
safe from fire initiation hazard; the auxiliary power supply
system being further characterized by providing the auxiliary
voltage during said periods of interruption as well as during
other periods.
The following references are relied on by the exam-
iner:
Attema 3,771,103 Nov. 6, 1973
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