Appeal No. 1999-0074
Application No. 08/401,347
Jackson’s compression straps may take the form of a single
piece of material having a slot cut therein (column 2, lines
28-30).
Ivy is also directed to a radiator assembly. Ivy’s
radiator assembly comprises a core 16 having a horizontally
outwardly projecting flange 20, a tank 12 having a
horizontally outwardly projecting flange 32, and a gasket 24
disposed between the flanges of the tank and the core. Ivy’s
fastening mechanism for securing the tank to the core
comprises a series of four clamping plates 34, 36, 38, and 40
which collectively extend about and mate with the tank’s
clamping flange, and a plurality of fasteners 44, 46 extending
through aligned apertures in the flanges 20, 32, the gasket
24, and the clamping plates 34, 36, 38, and 40.
In rejecting claims 1 and 16 as being unpatentable over
Jackson in view of Ivy, the examiner implicitly finds that
Jackson lacks only a unitary, flat tank torque plate disposed
in mating relationship with the clamping flange 18 of the
tank. It is the examiner’s position, however, that it would
have been obvious to modify Jackson to include this fastening
element in view of Ivy’s teaching at clamping plates 34, 36,
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