Appeal No. 2001-2509
Application No. 08/603,331
at said top and a flexible straight edge at said
bottom, said handle being directly above said flexible
straight edge, wherein, at all points at a given height
above said bottom, the shortest distance between said
front and said back is less than the shortest distance
between said two sides.
In the rejection of the appealed claims, the examiner relies
upon the following references:
Tupper 2,900,656 Aug. 25, 1959
Loos 4,297,761 Nov. 03, 1981
Priore 4,970,749 Nov. 20, 1990
Ballantyne 30,518 Dec. 03, 1930
(Austrialian Patent)
Appellant’s claimed invention is directed to a monolithic
device comprising a handle and a flexible straight edge blade for
moving flowable materials. According to the present
specification, scrapers or squeegees of the prior art present
problems by having separate blade and handle sections. Appellant
states that “[o]ften the blade, especially when wet and slippery,
slips in the slot” (page 1 of the specification, last paragraph).
The presently claimed device, on the other hand, “is a
monolithic scraper or squeegee having tapered or thinned edge so
as to be flexible to conform to surface irregularities . . .”
(page 2 of the specification, third paragraph).
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