Appeal No. 2000-0506
Application 08/979,592
art, we must agree with appellant’s position that the prior
art teachings relied upon by the examiner would not appear to
be sufficient to have suggested to one of ordinary skill in
the art making the type of modifications in the hanger (1) of
Von Herrmann (‘013) urged by the examiner. In the first
place, the problem of supporting a map mounted on a spring
roller as in Cauffman is not at all related to the simple
hanger member for sheet material taught in Von Herrmann
(‘013). Those two devices operate in entirely different
fashions and involve vastly different forces acting on the
respective supporting and attachment means therein. Moreover,
we observe that the map rail hooks (10) in Cauffman are
separate and distinct components from both the map rail (16)
and the channel member (20) of the map and roller assembly
therein, and that substituting the supporting arrangement of
Cauffman for the adhesive pad in Von Herrmann
(‘013) would not appear to result in a structure like that
claimed by appellant.
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