Appeal No. 95-2598
Application 08/021,230
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's
refusal to allow claims 1 and 3 through 8 as amended subsequent
to the final rejection in a paper filed July 8, 1994 (Paper
No. 8). Claim 2 has been canceled.
Appellant's invention relates to a machine for sealing
foldable flaps of parallelepiped boxes with gum-coated paper
tape. As noted on page 1 of the specification, it is an object
of the invention to provide a box sealing machine that is of
simple construction, easy maintenance, low cost and limited size.
To that end, appellant has provided a unitary, modular tape feed
assembly (6), seen best in Figures 3 through 8 of the application
drawings, which is of compact size and is removably mounted on
the arms (5) of the vertically moveable head (3). As noted in
the specification (page 3), the tape feed assembly (6) itself is
constituted by a plurality of individual units that can be taken
apart separately. Those units (e.g., a tape roll supporting unit
(11), a tape control unit (13), a tape centering unit (14), a
tape feed unit (17), a contrast unit (18), a tape shearing unit
(19), a tape moistening unit (20), and a tape application unit
(21)), seen best in Figure 5, are removably fastened to a lateral
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