Appeal No. 2004-0658 Page 8
Application No. 09/419,579
configured to project the audible warning signal outwardly from both sides of the sign
assembly.
The appellants argue (brief, pp. 2-3) that claims 1 and 6 require the audible
warning device (i.e., the selectively activatable audible warning means) to be "adjacent"
the manually graspable, vertical portion of the staff, not on top of the staff as is
Cameron's' audible warning signal device 14.
In our view, the limitation in claims 1 and 6 that the selectively activatable audible
warning means be "adjacent" the manually graspable, vertical portion of the staff is
readable on Cameron as follows. In the embodiment of Figure 1A of Cameron, the
claimed selectively activatable audible warning means is readable on Cameron's'
audible warning signal device 14, the actuating control 30 or 32 and the connecting
wires running in the hollow support rod 26. Clearly, as shown in Figure 1A, Cameron's
actuating control 30 or 32 that operates the audible warning of signal device 14 is
"adjacent" the manually graspable, vertical portion of the staff (Cameron's tubular
housing 28). In the embodiment of Figure 7 of Cameron, the claimed selectively
activatable audible warning means is readable on Cameron's' horn unit 154 and the
actuating control 30 or 32. Clearly, as shown in Figure 7, both Cameron's horn unit 154
and the actuating control 30 or 32 that operates the horn unit 154 are "adjacent" the
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