Appeal No. 2006-1819 6
Application No. 10/102,445
having a distance between the thick end and the thin end of at least 30 times the thickness
of the thick end, to thereby provide a transition support for extending over a low area of a
floor and for extending under a flooring material where the floor has a high area at a
relatively high height adjacent to the low area, a juncture between the high area and the
low area, and a difference in height between the high area and the low area at the
juncture, whereby the elongate wedge can have its relatively thick end placed at the
juncture adjacent the high area of the floor and the relatively thin end opposite the thick
end placed on the low area of the floor remote for the high area and the juncture so that
the tapering section of the wedge-shaped transition support renders the junction between
the high area and the low area of the floor generally unnoticeable to persons walking
across the flooring material on the tapering section and also prevents the jostling of
wheeled vehicles crossing the flooring material on the tapering section.
There is simply no reason, teaching or suggestion to modify the relatively small size
flooring adapter transition member of Glatz, which has an overall width dimension of
approximately 2.5 inches and is specifically designed to have end portions (44, 64) which
overlie adjacent flooring materials of differing heights, to take on a substantially different
configuration and role as a transition support of the type set forth in claims 12 through 20
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