Appeal No. 2000-1732
Application No. 08/972,852
We do not sustain any of the examiner's rejections on
appeal. Our reasoning appears below.
At the outset, it is worthy of pointing out that we
appreciate from appellant's specification (pages 6 and 7) that
slots 7 in venetian blind slats 6 are sized so that lift cords
81, 82, 83, and 84 and ends of cord type rungs 13 of a cord
type ladder 10 can fit loosely therein. The slots are of a
depth such that only the lift cords and ends of the rungs can
completely fit therein such that cord type rails of the ladder
can never be fully within the slots. As explained by
appellant (specification, page 9), “[s]ince the rails are on
the outside edges of the slats they can fold neatly across the
front of the blind when the blind is raised to the position
shown in Figure 2.” This folding is also depicted in Figure
6.
Appellant's sole independent claim 1 sets forth a
venetian type blind comprising, inter alia, a plurality of
slats with each slat having at least a first slot on one of an
outside edge and an inside edge, with the first slots forming
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