Appeal No. 2007-0023
Application No. 10/410,854
THE REJECTIONS
The claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as follows:
claims 24, 27, 30, 31, 33-35 and 50 over Nodière in view of
Taylor; claims 25, 26, 28, 29, 38, 40, 41, 44, 47, 48, 50, 53
and 54 over Nodière in view of Taylor and Wescott; and claims 32,
36, 42, 49, 51 and 52 over Nodière in view of Taylor, Wescott and
Costello.
OPINION
We reverse the aforementioned rejections. We need to
address only the independent claims, i.e., claims 24, 38, 44
and 50.
Claim 24
Claim 24 requires a fastener that is axially hollow
completely through the fastener.
Nodière discloses a safety bolt having
[a] hollow unthreaded shank provided with circumferential
depressed ring portions of varying wall thickness spaced by
intermediate portions whose surface is parallel to the bolt
axis. The central bore of the parallel intermediate
portions, and the cross section of the ring portions, are
both so designed that for all axial points of the bolt the
cross-sectional area of the unthreaded portion equals the
cross-sectional area carried by the core of the threaded
portion measured between the deepest points of the threads.
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