Appeal No. 1999-0695 Page 4
Application No. 08/427,018
Reference is made to the brief and reply brief (Paper Nos. 16 and 20) and the answer
(Paper No. 19) for the respective positions of the appellants and the examiner with regard to
the merits of these rejections.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given careful consideration to the
appellants' specification and claims, to the applied prior art references, and to the respective
positions articulated by the appellants and the examiner. As a consequence of our review, we
make the determinations which follow.
The AAPA relied upon by the examiner is described on page 1 of the appellants'
specification as follows:
In a web-fed rotary printing press, a web of material is fed from a roll stand,
through an infeed, then through one or more printing units, a dryer, and a chill
roll stand before being cut into a plurality of ribbons by a slitter mechanism. The
ribbons, in turn, are fed through an angle bar section, and then into a
cutting/folding cylinder section of a folder.
When a web is initially fed through the press (called "web-up"), it is fed
sequentially from the roll stand through to the folder. This process generally
involves two people manually feeding the web through each component of the
press system up to the entrance of the slitter mechanism. Once the web reaches
the slitter mechanism; additional personnel are required to process the ribbons,
e.g. two additional people per ribbon.
Benson discloses a threading device for threading a thermoplastic film web through a
wind-up section 13 (including nip rolls 20, 21, profile gauge 22, tension sensing rolls 23, 24
and reeler 26), the threading device comprising a splicer 28, including nip rolls 31, 32 and an
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