Appeal 2007-3317
Application 10/681,826
1 FINDINGS OF FACT
2 Appellant’s Specification teaches a method of manufacturing bags in
3 which a strip of foil 12A is placed on one side of a net bag and a strip of foil
4 12B is placed on the reverse side of the net bag (Figure 5). Each of the foil
5 strips includes at least two repeating printing patterns thereon. The method
6 includes the step of providing the two strips of foil 12A and 12B coupled
7 together as one strip from a single foil supply 11 (Specification 6; Figure 5).
8 The strips 12A and 12B are cut into separate strips and then connected to the
9 front and back of a net bag (Figure 4). The Appellant’s Specification teaches
10 that supplying the foil strips in a coupled manner and then cutting the single
11 strip to form strips 12A and 12B eliminates front and back pattern mismatch
12 (Specification 3). This is so because slight variations in the length of one
13 strip as compared to the other strip is eliminated.
14 Pannekeet discloses a method of manufacturing bags which includes
15 the step of providing two separate strips of foil 12, 16, suitable for printing,
16 from two different foil supplies 11, 15 which are to be connected to a net
17 bag as depicted in Figure 3).
18 Kurth discloses a method of manufacturing tubular bags in which a
19 sheet of packing material is withdrawn from a supply reel VR and slit into a
20 plurality of strips of equal width (col. 1, ll 18 to 22; col.4, ll 44 to 47, ll 60 to
21 65). The strips are utilized to form tubular bags (col. 1, ll 18 to 25). Kurth
22 discloses nothing about providing two strips of material each including
23 repeating printing patterns in a longitudinal direction or about supplying
24 such two strips of material in a coupled manner from a single supply reel.
25 Kurth discloses nothing about foil strips connected to net bags.
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