Appeal No. 2002-1123
Application No. 09/110,987
adult human hand.” Nor does it contain any limitation on how
the palmar surface of the hand must be oriented on the defined
area of the base member. Absent any description in the
specification to the contrary, we construe the recitation to
require a base member that must define an area of at least 40
square inches but does not have to accommodate the entire palmar
surface of an “average adult human hand.”3
Garr describes a wrapping table assembly including a
dispenser for a roll of plastic film that may be used for
wrapping food products comprising a housing to receive the roll
of film (13, 14, 27, and 41), a cutting blade or edge that
separates the film drawn from the roll into separate individual
sheets (46), and a base member (portion of generally planar top
17) between the roll and the cutting edge. (Figures 1-4 and 7.)
Garr further teaches that the assembly may be used with rolls of
different widths and that “[t]he object to be wrapped can be
placed either on or below the film on the upper surface of the
3 Our interpretation is consistent with the description
found in the present specification, which states (p. 18, ll. 19-
23): “The overall size of the dispenser is inconsequential, so
long as the material made available in the platform area is
sufficiently large enough to receive at least one of a user’s
hands, which will be on the order of 10 inches to a foot square,
or thereabouts.” That is, the recited minimum defined area of
“at least 40 square inches” appears to be significantly less
than the median size of an adult human hand.
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