Appeal No. 1999-0193
Application 08/552,174
part and the light sheet metal component after the free rim
portion is prestressed against the light sheet metal part,
which gap includes the space between the free rim portion
and the light sheet-metal part, by an adhesive introduced into
said gap such that the sheet steel component and the light
sheet metal component are adhesively bonded together.
THE PRIOR ART
The references relied on by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Poupitch 2,620,539 Dec. 9,
1952
Wilfert et al. (Wilfert) 2,819,925 Jan. 14,
1958
Noggle 4,791,765 Dec. 20,
1988
THE REJECTION
Claims 1 through 10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103(a) as being unpatentable over Wilfert in view of Noggle
and Poupitch.
Attention is directed to the appellants’ brief (Paper No.
29) and to the examiner’s answer (Paper No. 30) for the
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