Appeal No. 2004-0749 Page 8
Application No. 09/891,746
Barlett's planning assembly has the form of a folder of convenient standard size
when the leaves thereof are fully folded together. The assembly comprises a
removable element receiving member 11, in commercial terms frequently referred to as
a graph board or layout board, which for clarity of illustration is shown in outline only in
Figures 1 and 2, is not shown in Figure 3, and is shown in more detail in Figures 4 and
5, the member providing an element receiving surface 12, upon which planning
elements 14A, 14B and 14C (decorative and/or information elements in the case of
other embodiments) are placed and magnetically adhered thereto. Figure 1 shows a
block of elements 14 shaded to represent the color green, while a corresponding block
of elements 14' are shaded to represent the color brown. As shown in Figures 4 and 5,
member 11 comprises two equal-size leaves which are hinged together along their
butting longer edges, so that they can be folded together, as illustrated, one on top of
the other for storage, the leaves being opened to be coplanar for use. Each leaf
comprises a support sheet 16 to the upper surface of which is secured, as by an
adhesive or by double-sided adhesive tape, a thin sheet 18 of what is referred to herein
as magnetizable metal, namely any metal or metal alloy that will cooperate with a
permanent magnet of suitable strength to retain the magnet against movement
thereon, even through an intervening thin sheet of non-magnetizable material. The
support and metal sheets are sandwiched between a surface sheet 20 mounted
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