Appeal No. 96-2657
Application 08/212,379
providing a constraining means for maintaining said
core-wound paper product in a compressed state;
packaging said core-wound paper product in said
constraining means while said core-wound paper
product is in a compressed state;
providing a means in said compressed core-wound
paper product for opening said core to a dimension
of said minor axis of about 0.16 centimeters to
about 1.27 centimeters, after said core has been
flattened until
opposing halves of said core are in contact with one
another; and
opening said core to said dimension of said minor
axis while said core-wound paper product is packaged
in said constraining means.
The Examiner relies on the following reference:
Watanabe et al. (Watanabe) 4,762,061 Aug. 09,
1988
Watanabe 4,909,388 Mar.
20, 1990
Mathieson 1,096,821 Mar.
03, 1981
(Canadian patent)
Claims 8 through 13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Watanabe 061 in view of Watanabe
388 or Mathieson.
Rather than reiterate the arguments of Appellants and the
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