Appeal No. 96-1227
Application 08/134,853
from the final rejection of claims 1 through 10 and 24. The
appellants have since canceled claim 1, amended claims 2
through 9 and 24 and added claim 26. Thus, the appeal now
involves claims 2 through 10, 24 and 26. Claims 12 through
23, the only other claims pending in the application, stand
withdrawn from consideration pursuant to 37 CFR § 1.142(b).
The subject matter on appeal relates to a method of
sealing business forms. Claim 26 is illustrative and reads as
follows:
26. A method of handling a plurality of paper business
forms in succession, each form having at least two strips of
pressure sealing adhesive of a predetermined width for fixing
one part of the business form to another part, and wherein one
of said strips of pressure sealing adhesive extends
substantially perpendicularly to the other, comprising the
step of (a) automatically, in a continuous, sequential manner,
acting on successive business forms aligned in a predetermined
orientation, and each fed in a single direction of movement
corresponding to a long grain direction of said one part and
said another part, to apply a force thereto sufficient to
activate the pressure sealing adhesive to fix said one part of
the form to said another part of the form, the force being
applied substantially equally to each strip and only to the
approximate area of the predetermined width of said two strips
of pressure sealing adhesive, without having to alter said
predetermined orientation or single direction of movement of
said successive business forms.
The references relied upon by the examiner are:
Klar 3,068,933 Dec. 18,
1962
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