Appeal No. 95-2598
Application 08/021,230
In this case, considering the examiner's rejection of
claims 1 and 3 under 35 U.S.C. § 103, we must agree with
appellant that neither Warshaw, nor Ulrich, taken alone or in
combination, discloses, teaches or suggests a tape sealing
machine that has a tape feed assembly that is removable as a unit
from a vertically movable head, which includes a unit for
supporting a roll of gum-coated paper tape, a tape control unit,
a tape
centering unit, a tape feed unit, a contrast unit, a tape
shearing unit, a tape moistening unit, and a unit for applying
the moistened tape to said boxes, and which is disassembleable
into its individual constituent components (i.e., units), as
required in claim 1 on appeal.
As best seen in Figures 1 and 2, Warshaw discloses an
apparatus for sealing foldable flaps of a parallelepiped box
(e.g., 20) with a tape (70), wherein the apparatus includes: a
supporting base (11); transporting belts (15) for moving boxes
along the supporting surface; a head beam (112) having a mounting
seat internally thereof and being vertically movable along column
(13) with respect to the supporting base; and at least one tape
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