Appeal No. 2005-1768
Application No. 09/796,754
a hook including a holding lug, said hook being mounted at
a rear end of said pull-out rail such that said holding lug
extends in a horizontal direction toward a front end of said
pull-out rail so as to engage a rear end of the drawer frame to
be supported on said pull-out rail; and
a mechanism operable to move said holding lug in a vertical
direction relative to said pull-out rail so as to move the rear
end of the drawer frame in the vertical direction relative to
said pull-out rail to change an angle of inclination of the
drawer frame relative to said pull-out rail.
The examiner relies upon the following references as
evidence of obviousness:
Nock 5,015,047 May 14, 1991
Lautenschläger 5,779,333 Jul. 14, 1998
Appellant's claimed invention is directed to a pull-out
guide for drawers comprising a drawer frame connected to a pull-
out rail and mechanism that allows the rear end of the drawer
frame to move in a vertical direction in order to change the
angle of inclination of the drawer frame.
Appealed claims 27-29, 31, 49, 50 and 53-56 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Nock.1
We have thoroughly reviewed the respective positions
advanced by appellant and the examiner. In so doing, we find
1 Even though the statement of the rejection does not
include Lautenschläger, the examiner cites Lautenschläger "as an
evidence reference to show that the use of apertures and screws
to provide adjustability between adjacently secured members in a
drawer guide assembly is old and well known in the art" (page 4
of Answer, last sentence).
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