Appeal No. 1999-1487
Application No. 08/591,599
We cannot sustain the examiner’s respective rejections of
appellant’s claims.
The examiner considers the Hinrichs patent to be
anticipatory of the working chair recited in independent claim
1.
Claim 1 sets forth a particular arrangement of specified
structural components of a working chair whereby a seat is
movable from a backwards declining rest position in which a
front edge of the seat is displaced backwards and downwards
with respect to a carrier frame to a forward declining extreme
position, in which the front edge of the seat is displaced
forwards and upwards with respect to the carrier frame.
A review of the overall teaching of Hinrichs reveals to
us a chair with a pivotal arrangement of components enabling a
seat to be in a basic position G along a horizontal plane X-X
(Figs. 1 and 4) or in an inclined position N (Figs. 1, 3, and
4) wherein a front plate part 5 is located in a diagonal plane
4
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