Appeal No. 2000-0179
Application No. 08/923,774
wall (claims 18-20). The claims on appeal are reproduced in
the appendix to appellant's brief.1
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Sides 2,998,978 Sept. 5, 1961
Hummer 3,157,410 Nov. 17, 1964
Dunkley 867,840 May 10, 1961
(British patent specification)
The following rejections are before us for review.
Claims 9-15 and 17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103(a) as being unpatentable over Sides in view of Dunkley.
Claim 16 and 18-20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103(a) as being unpatentable over Sides in view of Dunkley and
Hummer.
Reference is made to the brief and reply brief (Paper
Nos. 26 and 28) and the answer (Paper No. 27) for the
respective positions of the appellant and the examiner with
regard to the merits of these rejections.
Claim 10 in appellant's appendix contains a minor error in1
reproduction, in that, in line 8, "real" should be "rear."
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