Appeal No. 97-1260
Application 08/124,774
covering or clothing similar to that of the main carding
cylinder and the breaker roll A between the fiber feeding
device and the licker-in as having a covering or clothing
similar to that of the revolving tops of the large or main
carding cylinder.
Otani discloses a carding machine which includes a main
carding cylinder 3 and an associated revolving top in the form
of a rotary flat section 4. As conceded by the appellant,
“the Otani reference in Figure 2 shows a cooperation between
traveling flats [i.e., the rotary flat section] that have a
pin clothing and a main carding cylinder that has a sawtooth
clothing” (main brief, page 9).
Riehl discloses a carding machine wherein the main
carding cylinder 12 is a pin roll. As best shown in Figure 4,
the pins are embedded in and project from a securing surface
of the roll.
According to the examiner, it would have been obvious to
one of ordinary skill in the art to implement Weber’s teaching
that the licker-in or breaker roll B has a covering similar to
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