Appeal No. 97-2720 Page 13
Application No. 08/354,387
The examiner responded to the appellants' argument by
stating (answer, p. 8) that "[i]n the photocopier of DuBois
the selected time would be when someone wants a photocopy."
In our view, the subject matter of claim 3 reads on the
device of DuBois as modified by Watanabe as set forth above
with respect to claim 2. DuBois' feed rollers 41 and 42 are
only driven to feed a new sheet when the motor 38 is energized
when the switch 73 (see Figure 11 of DuBois) is closed to feed
the sheet to the transfer table 14. Thus, the switch 73 is a
controller, in communication with the rollers 41 and 42 in
separator 13, for actuating the rollers 41 and 42 to advance a
sheet from the stack of sheets. DuBois' transfer table
utilizes feed rollers 64 and 65 driven by motor 66 to feed the
sheet from the transfer table 14 to the photocopier feed
roller 25. DuBois' feed rollers 64 and 65 are only driven to
feed the sheet from the transfer table 14 when the motor 66 is
energized when the switch 72 (see Figure 11 of DuBois) is
closed. In our view, this feeding of the sheet from the
transfer table to the photocopier feed roller 25 (i.e., the
delivery area) insures delivery of a sheet to the photocopier
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