Appeal No. 95-3922
Application No. 08/123,587
The subject matter on appeal relates to an apparatus and
method for splicing a tail end of a web coming from an
emptying web supply roller to the leading end of a new web
coming from a full web supply roller. The claimed apparatus
comprises, inter alia, two carriers mounted on journal shafts
tiltable independent of each other, two web holding and press-
on heads each mounted to its independently tiltable carrier,
and separate linear drives for separately stepping each of the
holding and press-on heads on its respective carrier with
linear stepwise strokes crossing a plane of symmetry defined
in part by two guide rollers. See Figure 2 of the
application.
Claim 23 is representative. A copy of the claim appears
in an attached APPENDIX.
The references on record relied upon by the examiner are:
Heitmann (Heitmann) 4,010,911 Mar.
8, 1977
Bianchetto et al. (Bianchetto) 4,455,190 Jun. 19,
1984
Martin 4,519,858 May 28,
1985
Wommer (Wommer) 4,722,489 Feb. 2,
1988
Shigeta (Shigeta) 4,984,750 Jan. 15,
1991
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