Appeal No. 2006-0366
Application 10/382,285
Attention is directed to the brief (filed May 18, 2005) and
answer (mailed June 29, 2005) for the respective positions of the
appellants and examiner regarding the merits of these rejections.2
DISCUSSION
O, the examiner’s primary reference, discloses “a tool that can
be used to install ceiling-mounted elements without requiring the
worker to leave the floor” (column 1, lines 29-31). The tool 10
comprises a telescopic housing section 12 composed of axially
adjustable sub-sections 14 and 16, an element 18 on the bottom end
of lower sub-section 14 for attachment to a hand-held power drill,
and an attaching section 22 on the top end of upper sub-section 16
for releasably holding the element (e.g., a bolt B) to be mounted to
the ceiling. The attaching section 22, which is an internally
threaded element having a hexagonal outer cross-section, fits into a
complementary hexagonal end bore 50 at the upper end of sub-section
16 and engages a threaded rod 62 disposed within the sub-sections 14
2 The record shows that the examiner’s inclusion of canceled
claim 15 in the statement of the first rejection in the answer
was inadvertent.
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