Appeal No. 2001-2178
Application No. 09/039,466
used” (specification, page 1). Representative claim 1 reads
as follows:
1. In combination with a door of a building structure,
said door being mounted within an opening and being movable
between an open position permitting passage through said
opening to a closed position preventing passage through said
opening, a jamb surrounding said door, said door having an
interior surface and an exterior surface, a doorknob mounted
on said exterior surface, an exercising device comprising:
a loop strap slipped over said doorknob;
an elastic cord connected to said loop strap by a slip
knot attachment, said loop strap being extended from said
exterior surface to directly adjacent but spaced from said
interior surface by being conducted between said door and said
jamb, said elastic cord terminating in a first end and a
second end, said slip knot attachment being tightenable onto
said elastic cord which permits said first end and said second
end to each be stretchable independent of each other;
a first handle assembly attached by first connection
means to said first end; and
a second handle assembly attached by second connection
means to said second end, whereby said first handle and said
second handle are to be grasped by a human with a force to be
applied in a direction away from said door causing stretching
of said elastic cord with said door in said closed position
and said loop strap being secured to said door and said
doorknob.
THE PRIOR ART
The references relied on by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
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