Appeal No. 2000-0310
Application 08/848,759
§ 103 as being obvious over Cheng.
OPINION
We reverse the aforementioned rejections.
Cheng discloses a fuse holder (abstract). The components
of the fuse holder relied upon by the examiner are within and
between the circles labeled “A” and “B” in figure 3. These
components include a rubber seal ring (18), which the examiner
considers to be the appellant’s insulator ring, a first
connector (21) which includes an embossed outside wall (23)
and a screw rod (24), and a second connector (22) which
includes an inner thread (25) (col. 2, lines 12-23). In the
assembled fuse holder (figure 4) the rubber seal ring is
gripped in an annular space between the second connector and
an end cap (16) which surrounds the second connector.
Each of the appellant’s independent claims requires that
an insulator ring is gripped by first and second threaded
inserts. The examiner argues that because Cheng’s first and
second connectors, which the examiner considers to be the
appellant’s first and second threaded inserts, are threaded
together in such a manner when the fuse holder is assembled
that the rubber seal ring is gripped between the second
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