54 in the judgment of this Court in Homecraft Steel Industries(Pty)Ltd v : (Pty) Ltd & A n o t h e r S M H a r e & S o n 1 9 8 4 ( 3 ) . SA 6 8 1 { A ) at pp 690 D - 692 H. As appears therefrom, the elements of design are pattern, shape, configuration or ornamentation; and for the exter- nal appearance of any article to be registrable as a design there must be something special, peculiar, distinctive, significant or striking about its pattern, shape, configu¬ ration or ornamentation, something which catches the eye - and in this sense appeals to the eye - and which distinguish¬ es the article from others of its type and class. * More¬ over, the proviso to the definition of "design" excludes from consideration (i) any feature in so far as such feature is dictated solely by the function which the article is in¬ tended......

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