Ex parte FROHLICH - Page 4




                 Appeal No. 2001-2616                                                                                                                   
                 Application No. 09/101,704                                                                                                             


                 and the respective viewpoints of appellant and the examiner.                                                                           
                 As a consequence of our review, we make the determinations                                                                             
                 which follow.                                                                                                                          


                          We do not sustain the rejection of appellant’s claims                                                                         
                 before us.                                                                                                                             


                          Independent claim 14 is drawn to a process for                                                                                
                 continuously winding a plurality of longitudinally cut paper                                                                           
                 webs at machine speed by using support rollers and at least                                                                            
                 one pair of disks associated with each of the support rollers                                                                          
                 and, inter alia,  requires the steps of axially adjusting the                                                                          
                 disks of the at least one pair of disks to correspond to a                                                                             
                 width of web to be wound and running the supporting rollers                                                                            
                 and a first cardboard tube up to machine speed thereby winding                                                                         
                 the web onto the first cardboard drive, wherein the first                                                                              
                 cardboard tube is driven by a first core winding device.                                                                               
                 Independent claim 17 recites a device for continuously winding                                                                         

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                 been expected to draw from the disclosure.  See In re Preda,                                                                           
                 401 F.2d 825, 826, 159 USPQ 342, 344 (CCPA 1968).                                                                                      

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