Appeal No. 96-4004
Application 08/342,603
The invention relates to a machine and method for bagging
silage material. A copy of the appealed claims appears in the
appendix to the appellant’s brief (Paper No. 9).
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Eggenmuller et al. (Eggenmuller) 3,687,061 Aug. 29,
1972
Cox et al. (Cox) 4,653,553 Mar. 31,
1987
Claims 10 through 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Cox in view of Eggenmuller.
Reference is made to the appellant’s brief (Paper No. 9)
and to the examiner’s answer (Paper No. 10) for the respective
positions of the appellant and the examiner with regard to the
merits of this rejection.
Cox discloses a bag loading machine 10 which is designed
to form and deliver into an agricultural bag 18 a dense mass
of animal feed material such as forage or silage. The machine
includes an infeed conveyor 32, a hopper 42, a pair of
vertically-disposed, laterally-spaced tine shaft assemblies 34
and 36, a feed material compression and forming chamber 40,
and a delivery chamber 44. These components are arranged as
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