Appeal No. 2000-1654
Application 09/097,860
in unison when a load is applied to said arch structure, said
shear bond connectors providing a plurality of curved beam column
stiffeners to enhance combined positive and negative bending
resistance and axial load resistance of said base arch structure,
there being a sufficient number of said second series of plates
to provide a sufficient number of said curved beam column
stiffeners to support anticipated loads imposed on said
structure.
THE PRIOR ART
The references relied on by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
Sivachenko 4,186,541 Feb. 5, 1980
Gurtner et al. (Gurtner) 4,318,635 Mar. 9, 1982
Wilson et al. (Wilson) 5,326,191 Jul. 5, 1994
Sattler et al., (Sattler)2 2657229 Jul. 28, 1977
German Patent Document
THE REJECTION
Claims 1 through 23 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over the combined teachings of Wilson,
Gurtner, Sivachenko and Sattler.
Attention is directed to the appellant’s main and reply
briefs (Paper Nos. 10 and 13) and to the examiner’s final
rejection and answer (Paper Nos. 3 and 11) for the respective
2 An English language translation of this reference,
prepared on behalf of the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, is appended hereto. The record also contains a
translation submitted by the appellant with the main brief (Paper
No. 10). We have used the Office translation in discussing the
reference in this decision.
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