Appeal No. 97-0180
Application 08/374,131
of Komossa. Ryan discloses a bagging machine for bagging
material in agricultural bags that includes a frame with
rearward and forward ends (Fig. 1). There is also a tunnel on
the frame that has an intake for receiving the material to be
bagged and an output adapted to receive the mouth of an
agricultural bag
(Fig. 6). A rotor 92 is disposed at the intake end of the
tunnel for forcing the material to be bagged into the tunnel
and into the bag. There is a hopper means 64 on the frame for
receiving the material to be bagged. This hopper means has an
upper and a lower end and includes a front sloped wall, rear
unsloped wall and side walls extending between the front
sloped wall and the rear wall. The walls are fixed and non-
movable. The rotor is disposed between the lower end of the
front sloped wall and the lower end of the rear wall. Ryan
does not disclose a sloped rear wall.
Komossa discloses a hopper means for receiving tobacco
products. The hopper means includes front and rear movable
walls that move between sloped and unsloped positions. It is
the examiner’s position that it would have been obvious to a
person of ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention
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