Appeal 2006-2849
Application 10/310,200
a pair of chocks having an extending and retracting
interconnection comprising a single exteriorly threaded shaft;
one chock of the pair of chocks being attached to each end of
the shaft; and
a means for rotating a rotatable adjusting member having a
plurality of circumferentially-spaced apertures located on a radial
surface of the rotatable adjusting member; the rotatable adjusting
member being fixably attached to the shaft substantially midway
between opposite ends of the shaft; and the rotatable adjusting
member and the shaft being rotatable in a first direction for extension
of the chocks and being rotatable in an opposite direction for
retraction of the chocks.
THE REFERENCES
Reilly US 4,324,036 Apr. 13, 1982
Fox US 4,828,076 May 9, 1989
THE REJECTION
Claims 1-10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Fox in view of Reilly.
OPINION
We affirm the aforementioned rejection.
The Appellant states that the claims stand or fall together (Br. 4). We
therefore limit our discussion to one claim, i.e., claim 1. See
37 C.F.R. § 41.37(c)(1)(vii)(2004).
Fox, which has the same inventor as the application in this appeal and
is incorporated by reference in the Appellant’s Specification (¶ 0018),
discloses a lock chock for tandem axle wheels (Fox, col. 1, l. 2). “The lock
chock assembly 10 consists mainly of fore and aft blockers 14 and 15
interconnected by use of an exteriorly threaded shaft 16 upon which a wing
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