Appeal No. 95-0900
Application 07/947,117
that advances adhesive bandages 32 consecutively upward for
contact with suction cup 31 (Kistner, column 3, lines 3-5). The
hopper acts as a holding box for the bandages and does not
present an inclined planar surface. Kistner does not show a
vertical stroke for the bandage pick up but the hopper achieves
the same function as a vertical stroke by advancing the bandages
upwardly to the suction cup. Although not discussed by Kistner,
it appears that the vacuum arm 30 does move through a vertical
transfer when delivering the bandage to the first platen 15 (see
the dotted line movement of 30 in Figure 1 and column 3, lines 7-
13).
Trouteaud and Uchimura were applied by the examiner to show
vacuum clamps used in a labeling process wherein the clamp
element is rotatable between 115 to 165 degrees as required by
the relative positions of the label pick-up station and the label
application station (answer, page 5). Heitmann was relied upon
by the examiner to show a water spraying device to activate the
adhesive side of the labels along a label transport path. None 3
of these references applied in the rejections of claims 8, 9 and
3 Heitmann appears cumulative to Hannen, who teaches the use of a device
23 to spray water onto the underside of the label 18 while it advances along its
path (column 7, lines 13-17).
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