Appeal No. 96-0356
Application 08/163,635
to the rollers on shafts 25, 71, 31, 29, 72
respectively; rotating means. (fig. 2). Note that
during pivoting of frame 28, neither gear 21 nor 27 is
in contact [with] gear 22 of the second roller. Thus,
the second roller is in an idle state during this
period. [Paper No. 5, page 3].
Appellants states that Yoshinobu:
. . . does not teach that the rotating means rotates
the second roller simultaneously with the first roller
and is adapted to enable the second roller to idle
simultaneously with the first roller rotating in the
first direction. Moreover, there is no teaching of the
rotating means rotating the second roller in the first
direction and in the second direction opposite to the
first direction. [Brief at page 10].
We do not agree with appellants. Yoshinobu discloses and depicts
in Figures 2 and 3 a roller (first roller) on shaft 25 and a
roller 5 (second roller) which rotates simultaneously with the
roller on shaft 25. Roller 5 rotates in the same direction as
the roller on shaft 25 when the drive mechanism is in the
position depicted in Figure 2. In addition, the examiner found
that roller 5 is idled at least momentarily when the drive
switching mechanism moves from the position depicted in Figure 2
to the position depicted in Figure 3. The roller 5 rotates in
the opposite direction (second direction) to the direction of the
rotation of the roller disposed of shaft 25 when the drive
switching mechanism is in the position depicted in Figure 3.
Appellants’ argument does not rebut the examiner’s finding
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