Appeal No. 2005-1698 Page 9
Application No.09/775,425
the teachings of Beam, cannot extend radially beyond the outermost edge of the wheel
regardless of tolerance variations of the applique and the wheel without destroying the
function of the annular catch 46.
Chase discloses a wheel and overlay assembly wherein the wheel 110 is
provided with a flange lip 120 and the overlay is provided with an overlay lip 122a. As
seen in Figure 1, the radially outermost edge of the overlay lip 122a extends within a
margin of the radially outermost edge of the flange lip 120, with both having a curved
edge configuration to permit a conventional weight clip 130 to be placed around the
flange lip and overlay lip. One of ordinary skill in the art reading Chase’s disclosure
would have understood that an overlay lip extending radially beyond the flange lip of the
wheel would interfere with the placement of the weight clip thereover and that such was
not intended by Chase.
Murray discloses a composite wheel having a decorative overlay 3 molded
thereon, the overlay including a portion 13 which extends over edge 9 of the outermost
flange 30 of rim portion 21 of the wheel. As illustrated in Figure 3 and as is evident from
Murray’s discussion of the process and apparatus for molding the overlay material onto
the wheel backbone 2, the molding apparatus and process, wherein the radially
outermost side 39 of edge 9 of the wheel is placed against the forming surface 8 of the
apparatus (see Figure 12), ensures that the overlay portion 13 will not extend radially
beyond the radially outermost side of the wheel.
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