Appeal No. 2002-1822
Application No. 09/197,164
with appellant's arguments therein. Neither Wallace '679 nor
Narkon disclose, teach, or suggest a male connection member in a
railway car connection assembly constructed in the particular
manner required by appellant's claims on appeal, wherein at least
a portion of the inner surface (15) of the male connection member
and the inner surface of the retainer member (21) received
therein cooperate together to form a substantially spherical
inner surface of the male connection member capable of retaining
the substantially spherical member (42) of the connection
assembly therein.
Since Narkon has no male connection member like that in
Wallace '679 and the elements (14) and (16) of Narkon pointed to
by the examiner make up the two piece outer race (12) of the
self-aligning track roller described therein, it appears to us
that appellant has correctly concluded (brief, page 11) that a
combination of Wallace '679 and Narkon following the teachings of
those references would, at best, merely result in the replacement
of one two piece race assembly (i.e., 44 of Wallace '679) with
another two piece race assembly like that shown in Narkon, and
not result in any other modification of the male connection
member (20) seen in Wallace '679.
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