Appeal No. 96-2099
Application 08/128,976
as the examiner has proposed, the deflecting gates (such as DG1L
and DG1R) would have to be removed in order to leave gaps or
spaces through which a collapsed carton deflected by the air
nozzles could pass. With such large gaps or spaces on both sides
of the conveyor 362, it does not appear that a collapsed carton
would be vertically conveyed past the successive sorting channels
in the manner intended by Teegarden.
For the foregoing reasons we will not sustain the rejection
of the appealed claim under 35 U.S.C. § 103 based on the combined
teachings of Teegarden, Anschutz and Bush.
REVERSED
HARRISON E. McCANDLISH )
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JEFFREY V. NASE )
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