Appeal No. 2005-0489 Page 4
Application No. 10/144,987
upper fitting, said lower mounting substantially precluding
said lower fitting from lateral movement with respect to said
axis of elongation, such lateral movement being limited by
slight spacing between said lower mounting and said body,
said slight spacing provided solely to facilitate said free
movement;
e) whereby, when said upper and lower fittings are
coupled to separate attachment locations on said flag,
banner or pennant, and said vehicle is moving, relative wind
speed above a desired threshold with respect to said
flagpole causes said lower fitting to move up said flagpole
toward said upper fitting, thereby causing said flag, banner
or pennant to adopt a non-planar elongated U-shaped
configuration reducing snapping of a trailing edge thereof
remote from said flagpole.
Fisher merely discloses an ornamental design for a flag holder for vehicles,
without providing any details as to the mounting of the flag thereon. Rohrbaugh
discloses an endless flag halyard entrained around the pulley 2 at the top of a flag mast
1, the halyard provided with an upper flag attaching means 4, including a tubular part 5
through which the halyard may be threaded and in which the halyard is secured against
relative movement by means of set screws 6 and further including a snap hook
construction 7 adapted to engage the ring 8 in the upper corner of the flag, and a lower
flag attaching means which consists of an elongated body member 9 to one end of
which an enlarged ring 10 is integrally secured and to the other end of which a snap
hook 11 is integrally secured. According to Rohrbaugh,
[t]he ring 10 is of a diameter which is materially greater than
the diameter of the halyard with which it is intended to be
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