Appeal No. 1998-2179 Page 2
Application No. 08/433,231
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a process and to an apparatus for storing stackable,
sheet-like blanks wherein the blanks are delivered individually one after the other to an
intermediate store which comprises a stack of the blanks and then withdrawn from the
intermediate store and fed in a continuous stream to a winding station where they are wound
into a roll (specification, page 2). Further understanding of the invention can be derived from a
reading of exemplary claims 1 and 12, which appear in the appendix to the appellant's brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed
claims are:1
Newsome 4,771,896 Sep. 20, 1988
Reist 4,898,336 Feb. 6, 1990
Schall 4,235,452 Apr. 28, 1994
(German patent document)
Shimanis et al. (Shimanis) 1,070,102 Jan. 30, 1984
(Russian patent document)
The following rejections are before us for review.
1. Claims 12, 19 and 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Newsome in view of Reist.
1English language translations of the Schall and Shimanis references, prepared for the PTO, are appended
hereto.
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