Appeal No. 2001-0092 Page 4
Application No. 09/033,145
inherency, in a single prior art reference. See Kalman v.
Kimberly-Clark Corp., 713 F.2d 760, 772, 218 USPQ 781, 789
(Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 465 U.S. 1026 (1984).
Claim 1 reads as follows:
A central lubrication system for a rotary printing
press where water will enter the lubrication system only
in exceptional circumstances, comprising:
a central supply of lubricant for individual
lubricating points;
a line system for feeding an oversupply of lubricant
to the individual lubricating points;
a lubricant return system for returning the excess
lubricant;
a test box connected, upstream of the central
supply, to the lubricant return system;
a sensor received in said test box, said sensor in
said test box constantly testing the lubricant for the
presence of a certain percentage of water in the
lubricant;
an inlet formed in said test box, said inlet
connected to the lubricant return system; and
an outlet formed in said test box so that the
lubricant is able to circulate about said sensor in said
test box between said inlet and said outlet thereof.
Krambs' invention relates to a monitoring process on
machine assemblies with central lubrication in rotary printing
presses, with such machine assemblies possibly being, for
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