Appeal No. 2002-1276
Application 09/405,971
blade. To overcome these deficiencies, the examiner turns to
Alexander.
Alexander discloses a utility knife for “the cutting of
cords; shaping of suitable material in the manner of a draw-
knife, applying putty and other manifold purposes” (page 1, lines
85 through 88). The knife includes a triangular blade 10 having
opposed angular cutting edges 11 and a rectangular back 12, and
blade-supporting structure comprising a plate 18 connected to the
back of the blade by two screws, an elongate transverse opening
21 and a cylindrical handle 20, these elements being arranged in
their operative position as shown in Figure 2. As described by
Alexander,
[w]hen the knife is not in use one of the screws
may be removed and the other slackened to permit the
blade 10 to be rotated on the slackened screw as a
pivot, the blade swinging over the level surface of the
plate 18, through an opening 23 into the handle space
24, as seen in Figure 4, in which position the cutting
edges are protected from injury by accidental contact
with other articles and at the same time damage to
adjacent objects is prevented [page 1, lines 63 through
73].
In proposing to combine Cremonese and Alexander to reject
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