Appeal No. 96-2657
Application 08/212,379
claims 8 through 13, all of the claims present in the
application. Claims 1 through 7 have been canceled.
The invention relates to core-wound paper products.
Appellants' invention is directed to reducing the costs
associated with the contribution of the package volume by
compressing the product, reducing the void space of the hollow
core. On page 3 of the specification, Appellants disclose
that the object of their invention is to improve the ability
of the consumer to reround, with fewer occurrences of core
inversion, the core of the compressed core-wound paper product
to a generally cylindrically shaped paper product.
The independent claim 8 is reproduced as follows:
8. A method of making a compressed core-wound paper product,
said method comprising the steps of:
providing a generally tubular core having a circular
cross section;
providing a cellulosic paper product;
winding said paper product about said tubular core
in a spiral pattern;
flattening said core until two diametrically opposed
vertices defining a major axis and a minor axis
orthogonal thereto are formed and opposing halves of
said core are in contact, said major and minor axes
lying within said cross section of said core;
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