Appeal Number: 2006-2066
Application Number: 10/743,461
OPINION
We reverse the aforementioned rejections, enter a new
rejection of claim 1 under 37 CFR § 41.50(b), and remand the
application to the examiner to address the other claims.
We need to discuss only the examiner’s rejection of the
sole independent claim, i.e., claim 1. The examiner does not
rely upon any of the other references for a disclosure or
suggestion of subject matter in that claim. Claim 1 requires at
least one press nip between a shoe pressing unit and a Yankee
drying cylinder, wherein the at least one press nip has a length
in a web travel direction greater than approximately 80 mm
(3.15 inches) and has a pressure profile over its length having
a maximum pressing pressure less than or equal to approximately
2 MPa.
Edwards discloses a shoe pressing unit in combination with
a transfer cylinder that can be a Yankee cylinder (col. 15,
lines 59-64; col. 16, lines 26-27) having between them a press
nip wherein “[t]he shoe element length can be less than about
7 inches but is more preferably less than about 3 inches”
(col. 16, lines 43-45) and “the peak pressure in the shoe press
is preferably greater than about 2000 kN/m2 [2 MPa]” (col. 17,
lines 1-3).
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