Appeal No. 97-2720 Page 14
Application No. 08/354,387
feed roller 25 at the time the switch 72 is closed (i.e., a
selected time).
For the reasons set forth above, the decision of the
examiner to reject claim 3 under 35 U.S.C. 103 is affirmed.
Claim 5
Dependent claim 5 adds to parent claim 1 the limitation
that the apparatus further comprises "an access door enclosing
an area of the sheet stack, said access door operatively
associated with said feed head [sic, feedhead], to retract
said feed head [sic, feedhead] from the stack of sheets in
response to the door being opened."
Scott discloses a toilet paper cabinet. As shown in
Figures 1 and 3, the cabinet comprises a back A having a
tongue G, a front frame B hinged at C to back A, a feeding
roller J mounted on the front frame B, a hand wheel M to
operate the feeding roller J, and a package of toilet paper O
having a stack of paper sheets secured together by fastener R.
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