Appeal No. 2001-0327
Application 08/990,295
such claims “are now objected to as claims dependent upon
rejected claims.”
Accordingly, only the examiner’s rejection of claims 1 through
4, 6 through 11, 13 through 16 and 18 remains for our
consideration in this appeal. Claims 6 and 9 through 14 were
amended subsequent to the final rejection in a paper filed
September 13, 1999 (Paper No. 13).
Appellants’ invention relates to a sheet feeder unit
which supplies cut sheets to a copying machine, printer, fac-
simile machine, or image reading apparatus from a stack of
such sheets piled on a support tray. As noted on page 4 of
the specification, it is a primary objective of the invention
to provide a sheet feeder unit capable of successfully
separating and supplying cut sheets of any type one by one to
the various appliances noted above (i.e., copy machine,
printer, etc.). As also indicated on page 4 of the
specification, this objective is accomplished by providing a
sheet feeder unit comprising
a support member on which a pile of sheets
are loaded; a feeding roller for sending
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