Appeal No. 97-1890
Application 08/338,707
plurality of operations. However, the Examiner is not relying
on Kapp for these teachings but instead relies on Francisco.
On pages 4 and 5 of the answer, the Examiner shows that
Francisco teaches the method steps of claim 1 except for an
express teaching of providing a plurality of motor profiles
and controlling the motors in correspondence with selected
ones of the plurality of motor profiles. The Examiner shows
that Kapp teaches a microprocessor that provides and selects
motor profiles to control motors in the envelope path. The
Examiner argues that it would have been obvious to one of
ordinary skill in the art to modify the Francisco method of
controlling an insertion apparatus to have a plurality of
operations arranged for transporting an envelope and for
transporting and inserting a collation into the envelope by
providing a plurality of motor profiles and controlling the
respective plurality of motors in correspondence with selected
ones of the plurality of motor profiles in order to obtain
Kapp's benefit of overcoming motor failure and system jams as
recited in Appellants’ claim 1. We agree.
We note that the Appellants have not argued why the
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