Appeal No. 97-2904
Application 08/565,457
through 7, claim 8 is limited to a printing machine in which
the sheet, which is advanced by the transport, is the sheet
which receives the image at a transfer station. We find no
suggestion in the teachings of Ikeda and Horikawa of utilizing
Horikawa’s transport system in Ikeda’s copier for advancing
the copy sheet to the transfer station. Furthermore, even if
these references were combined in the manner proposed by the
examiner, the result would not arrive at the invention defined
in claim 8 because, as previously noted, Horikawa does not
expressly or inherently disclose the feature of permitting
relative movement between the sheet and the transport in one
of the modes of operation. Dragstedt, which is relied on in
the rejection of claims 9 and 11 through 14, but not in the
rejection of claim 8, does not rectify this shortcoming
because Dragstedt discloses the utilization of the transport
system for advancing the original document from which the
image is copied, not the copy sheet which receives the
transferred image.
Under the provisions of 37 CFR § 1.196(b), the
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