Appeal No. 2000-1315
Application 09/152,563
DISCUSSION
Famolare, the examiner’s primary reference, discloses “a
bowling shoe construction having a removable slide pad and
heel for varying the friction of the bowling shoe sole on the
bowling surface” (column 1, lines 8 through 11). As described
in the reference,
[t]he instant bowling shoe construction [10]
comprises a shoe upper [12], and a shoe sole [14]
mounted to the shoe upper. The shoe sole has a
tread surface [24], and a slide area [26] on the
tread surface extending longitudinally from a toe
end [18] of the shoe sole rearwardly to an arch
portion [20] thereof, and extending laterally across
the entire width of the tread surface. The bowling
shoe construction further comprises a removable
slide pad [16] having a peripheral margin equal to
the peripheral margin of the slide area on the tread
surface so that the slide pad completely overlays
the slide area. The slide pad is removably secured
to the tread surface by means of interlocking hook
and pile fastener materials [32, 34] attached to the
slide area of the tread surface and to the slide
pad. In a second embodiment, the shoe construction
[38] includes a removable slide pad [44] and a
removable heel [46] which are removably secured to
the sole [42] of the shoe with hook and pile
fastener material [50, 52, 58, 60]. The removable
slide pad and heel enable the bowler to select slide
materials having desired frictional characteristics
to improve sliding on varying bowling lane surface
conditions [column 1, line 55, through column 2,
line 6].
of these references (see page 2 in the answer).
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