Appeal No. 97-0180
Application 08/374,131
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on an appeal from the examiner’s final
rejection of claims 4-7, which are all the claims pending in
the application. Claims 1-3 have been canceled.
The appellant’s claimed subject matter is a bagging
machine for bagging material into agricultural bags. Claim 4
is exemplary of the subject matter on appeal and recites:
4. A bagging machine for bagging material into
agricultural bags comprising:
a frame means having rearward and forward ends;
a tunnel means on said frame means and having an intake end
for receiving the material to be bagged and an output end
adapted to receive the mouth of an agricultural bag;
a horizontally disposed rotor means at the intake end of said
tunnel means for forcing the material to be bagged into said
tunnel means and into said bag, and
a hopper means on said frame means for receiving the material
to be bagged, said hopper means having an open upper end and a
lower end;
said hopper means including a sloped front wall, a sloped rear
wall; and side walls extending therebetween;
said walls being fixed and non-movable;
said sloped front wall and said sloped rear wall each having
upper and lower ends;
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