Appeal No. 97-2229
Application No. 08/094,748
portions and said bottom fold-guiding edge portion; and
said apparatus being completely removed from said garment
after folding operations are complete by upwardly pulling said
apparatus free from the folded garment.
THE REFERENCES
The references relied upon by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
Bachmann 1,252,461 Jan. 1,
1918
Datlow 4,944,417 Jul. 31,
1990
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 1, 19 and 26 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
102(b) as being anticipated by Bachmann.
Claims 2, 3, 5, 7, 14, 20, 21, 23-25 and 27-32 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Bachmann in view of Datlow.2
2While in the Answer this rejection is applied to claims
20-25, it appears that this was in error, for, apparently due
to an error in claim numbering, a claim 22 never was made of
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