Appeal 2007-0872
Application 10/159,762
1 FINDINGS OF FACT
2 We agree with Appellant (Brief 6) that Schaap discloses a screen 1 that has
3 one end attached to a roller mechanism in the usual manner and that is mounted
4 within a housing 2 situated above the opening. The opposite end of the screen 1 is
5 attached to a pull beam 3. The screen 1 is wound around the roller mechanism and
6 is lowered from the housing 2 to cover the opening by being unwound from the
7 roller mechanism. Alternatively, the screen 1 is raised to cover the opening by
8 being wound onto the roller mechanism and retracted into the housing 2. Thus, the
9 Schaap screen 1 alternatively is wound around the roller mechanism and is
10 unwound from the roller mechanism.
11 We further agree with Appellant (Brief 6) that the Schaap device has a side
12 guide 4 disposed to each side of the screen 1, which extends through a slot 7 in the
13 side guide 4. The pull-beam 3 is guided in these side guides 4 in the usual manner.
14 A guiding rod 5 is provided to extend axially in each side guide 4. Each side guide
15 of the screen 1 is provided with a hem that engages one of the guide rods and slides
16 along the guide rod 5 in the usual manner as the screen 1 is raised or lowered.
17 Likewise, we agree with the Appellant (Brief 7) that Fernandez Lopez
18 discloses a shade for a roller blind that includes a woven fabric 1 having at regular
19 intervals, and in crosswise or transverse direction, a series of bands 2 obtained
20 during the weaving of the fabric 1. Each band 2 comprises two plies 3 and 4,
21 defining between them a pocket 5 for housing a corresponding rod which a roller
22 blind typically carries at regular intervals and wherein each of the pockets 5 is
23 defined by a different band 2.
24 Fernandez Lopez further includes a “lower hem which is similarly obtained
25 during the actual process of weaving of the fabric, since similarly to the bands or
26 strips for housing the rods, said lower hem also forms a woven band, of greater
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