Appeal No. 96-1227
Application 08/134,853
end sealers 29 and cross sealer 30 are perpendicular to one
another.
Klar discloses a packaging machine and method “wherein
the packages pass between two nipping rollers which apply heat
and pressure along one or more edges of the package to effect
sealing” (column 1, lines 9 through 11). As best shown in
Figure 1, “[t]he two heated rollers 1, 2 of the machine are
provided with recesses so as to form raised transverse
portions 3 for sealing the transverse edges of the bag or flat
packages passing between the rollers, as well as peripheral
raised portions 4 which serve to seal the longitudinal edges”
(column 2, lines 64 through 69).
Gerlach discloses a packaging apparatus and method
wherein “a web having a pre-printed pattern of pressure
sensitive sealant thereon may be pressure sealed with the
subject apparatus when the material is cold” (column 2, lines
46 through 48).
In explaining the first of the § 103 rejections, the
examiner concludes that it would have been obvious to one of
ordinary skill in the art (1) “to substitute Klar’s sealing
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