Appeal 2006-1989
Application 09/772,278
Patent 5,996,948
forming a base support for the stand to rest upon with each
upright section extending upwardly from said base support to
form an angle equal to or greater than 90° with respect to a
horizontal plane through said base support and being affixed to
the upper rim adjacent one end thereof and to said lower rim at
a relatively equal distance below the point of attachment to said
upper rim and further comprising a plurality of offsets located
either in said upright sections of said wire legs or in said upper
rim for laterally displacing each wire leg relative to said upper
rim to facilitate the nesting of a multiplicity of stands into one
another without significant wedging [ pair of wire legs of equal
length affixed at one end thereof to the upper rim and affixed to
the lower rim at an equal location substantially approximate the
opposite end of each wire such that the upper rim and the lower
rim lie in substantial parallel alignment to one another with the
wire legs extending equal distances below the lower rim to
uniformly support the stand at opposing ends thereof and
having a plurality of offsets in the upper rim of said stand or in
the wire legs at the point of interconnection therebetween].
21. In the amendment at page 4, Appellant stated three points as
follows:
Additionally, claim 1 requires each wire leg to have two upright
sections which are interconnected at a location below the lower
rim in a configuration forming a base support for the stand to
rest upon.
Furthermore, each upright section of the wire chafing stand as
now defined in cla[i]m 1 extends upwardly from the base
support at an angle equal to or greater than 90° with respect to a
horizontal plane through the base.
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