Appeal No. 97-0608
Application 08/287,143
(80, 82). During the process by which the document (D)
therein is to be shredded, a sheet material member or strip
portion (S) is fed between the rotary cutting and anvil
members and is cut into a plurality of small pieces (B). The
pieces (B) are collected in the end cap (76b) of the shredder
or are otherwise collected in an adjacent container (see col.
5, lines 10-16). Given appellants' concession on page 2 of the
specification that shredded paper is known for use as void
fill material, we consider it appropriate to denote the small
pieces of shredded paper (B) in MacGregor as being "void
fill material."
Claims 16 and 20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
102(b) as being anticipated by Watts. Watts discloses a
mechanism and process for making dunnage or void fill
material. In Figure 3,
and as described in column 6, line 26 et seq., Watts discloses
a portion of the mechanism which includes a cutting surface
(66) and an anvil surface (67), as well as the steps of
inserting a sheet material (34) between the cutting and anvil
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