Appeal No. 97-2720 Page 17
Application No. 08/354,387
Claims 7, 8 and 10
The appellants have grouped claims 2 and 7; claims 3 and
8; and 5 and 10 as standing or falling together. Thereby, in 4
accordance with 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7), claims 7, 8 and 10 fall
with claims 2, 3 and 5. Thus, it follows that the decision of
the examiner to reject claims 7, 8 and 10 under 35 U.S.C. §
103 is also affirmed.
Claims 11 and 12
Dependent claim 12 adds to parent claim 1 the limitation
that the apparatus further comprises "a variable speed drive
for feeding sheets through said variable length sheetpath to
said sheet delivery area." Dependent claim 11 adds the same
limitation to its parent claim 6.
Paxon discloses a variable speed sheet transport system
used to compensate for slippage between the sheets on the
belts.
4See page 4 of the appellants' brief.
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