Appeal No. 1999-1485
Application No. 08/317,355
generally rectangular planar plate body portion defining four
edges, with the body portion having two pairs of aligned
indicia adjacent the mid-portion of the edges.
The patent to Birckhead teaches staggered teeth or
connector (tension) plates 10 that can join two pieces of wood
which abut at a joinder line (Figs. 1A, 1B), with the tension
plates equally spaced about the joinder line (column 3, lines
29, 30). Tooth forming holes 22, 24 in the plates are
positioned such that
each hole is equally spaced on either side of the plates
vertical center line and on the plates horizontal center line
(column 4, lines 37 through 39).
The McWilliams patent addresses a concrete form bracket
20 for supporting horizontal studding 18 on vertical studding
16 (Fig. 1) wherein the bracket includes means to facilitate
positioning of the bracket in a correct horizontal position
(column 1, lines 17 through 19). As explained by the patentee
(column 2, lines 3 through 17), "alignment of the bracket is
easily attained by bringing one notch 28 in the edge 24
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