Appeal No. 97-1260
Application 08/124,774
pending in the application.2
The invention relates to “an apparatus which forms part
of a carding machine and which serves for introducing fiber
material to the main carding cylinder” (specification, page
1). Independent claim 1 is representative and reads as
follows:
1. In a carding machine including a main carding
cylinder and an apparatus for introducing fiber material to
the main carding cylinder; the apparatus including a fiber
feeding device and at least one licker-in having a sawtooth
clothing and being disposed between the fiber feeding device
and the main carding cylinder; the improvement wherein said
apparatus comprises at least one pin roll having a pin
clothing; said pin roll including a securing surface; said pin
clothing including a plurality of pins embedded into and
projecting from said securing surface; said pin roll
immediately adjoining said fiber feeding device and being
situated between said fiber feeding device and said licker-in.
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Plantron 166,407 Aug. 3, 1875
Riehl et al. (Riehl) 2,964,801 Dec. 20, 1960
Otani 3,995,351 Dec. 7, 1976
Estebanell 4,355,439 Oct. 26, 1982
Weber 8560 Jun. 14, 1887
2Claims 17 and 18 have been amended subsequent to final
rejection.
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