Appeal No. 1998-2899
Application No. 08/632,687
the cylinder and the printing sleeve to a low pressure
region.2
In construing the language “a means extending
substantially across a length of the cylinder for connecting
an interface of the cylinder and the printing sleeve to a low
pressure region,” we note that the “means” may comprise, for
example, a groove 50 as shown in Figure 3. The groove 50 is
described in the specification (p. 8) as extending “across the
circumferential surface of the cylinder” and as connecting the
interface of the cylinder 40 and a printing sleeve mounted
thereon to an air canal 60.
We also note the appellants’ argument on page 6 of the
brief that the circumferential grooves 26 in the embodiment
illustrated
in Figure 4 of Fellows do not meet the claimed means
limitation because the grooves 26 in Fellows would only allow
air trapped
between the blanket and cylinder at the circumferential
According to the appellants’ specification (p. 8), the ”low pressure2
region” may be the atmosphere.
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