Appeal No. 1998-2641
Application No. 08/700,020
metering means and continually vibrating the metering means in
the nip to reduce the
amount of coating passing the metering means with the surface.
This appealed subject matter is adequately illustrated by
independent claim 21, the sole independent claim on appeal,
which reads as follows:
21. Method of applying a coating to a surface comprising
delivering said coating to a coating chamber opening toward
said surface, moving said surface relative to said chamber,
metering in a metering nip formed between said surface and a
metering means the amount of said coating carried from said
chamber with said surface as said surface moves from said
chamber, continually vibrating said metering means in said nip
to reduce the amount of coating passing said metering means
with said surface as said surface leaves said chamber.
The prior art set forth below is relied upon by the
examiner as evidence of obviousness:
Dahlgren et al. (Dahlgren) 4,088,074 May 9, 1978
The admitted prior art on page 1 of the specification.
All of the appeal claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over the admitted prior art in
view of Dahlgren.
OPINION
We cannot sustain this rejection.
As correctly indicated by the appellants in the brief,
Dahlgren discloses an apparatus for inking printing plates
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