Appeal No. 1999-0231
Application No. 08/472,354
The properly interpreted claim must then be compared with the
prior art. Accordingly, we will initially direct our
attention to the appellants' claim 1, which is the only
independent claim on appeal, to derive an understanding of the
scope and content thereof.
Claim 1 calls for an apparatus for reducing procession of
a gapless tubular printing blanket in an offset printing press
comprising: a gapless tubular printing blanket; a blanket
cylinder having an outer circumference which is greater than
the
inner circumference of the printing blanket; means [e.g., air
canal 60, Fig. 3] for radially expanding the gapless printing
blanket during installation of the blanket onto and removal of
the printing blanket from the blanket cylinder; a print
cylinder in rolling engagement with the blanket cylinder; and
means extending axially across a length of the blanket
cylinder circumferential surface, for connecting an interface
of the blanket cylinder and the printing blanket to a low
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