Appeal No. 1998-0797
Application No. 08/470,706
Rejection (1)
The Neill reference discloses a system including a folder
FS for folding paper sheets having pressure activated adhesive
A , A , etc., to form pre-mailers; an inserter IS for inserting1 2
elements into the pre-mailers; a pressure sealer 29, 30 for
the pre-mailers (col. 7, lines 33 to 36; col. 8, lines 35 to
41); and a stacker for the sealed mailers (Fig. 8 and col. 8,
line 42). Neill differs from the apparatus recited in claim 1
in that there is no disclosure that the folder, inserter,
etc., are mounted in or on "a common housing mounted on
movable elements." However, the examiner considers the
subject matter of claim 1 to have been obvious notwithstanding
this difference, basing this conclusion on the teaching of
Kalisiak, as stated at page 4 of the answer:
Because Kalisiak teaches the use of a
common housing for a business form sealer it
would have been obvious to one having ordinary
skill in the art to incorporate a similar
housing for the device of the combined
references [i.e., Neill and APA]. Also, to
mount movable elements onto a housing is
notoriously well known throughout the mechanical
arts.
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