Appeal No. 97-3990
Application 08/531,069
provisions of 37 CFR § 1.196(b), enter a new rejection of
claim 9.
The appellant's invention pertains to an apparatus for
manufacturing paper cushioning members that are useful as a
packing material for objects which are to be shipped or
transported. To this end, sheets of paper or other packing
material are fed to cutting members that form a plurality of
intermittent or spaced slits in the sheet. Thereafter, the
sheet is fed into a wave forming guide where it is "crumpled."
The "crumpled" sheet may, due to the intermittent or spaced
slits, thereafter be stretched so as to form a cushioning
member that is softer than one formed from a sheet not having
such slits.
A copy of claim 9 may be found in the appendix to the
brief.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Curtis 671,915 Apr. 9, 1901
Parker (Parker ‘972) 5,088,972 Feb. 18, 1992
Parker (Parker ‘013) 5,134,013 Jul. 28, 1992
Parker (Parker ‘352) 5,173,352 Dec. 22, 1992
Parker (Parker ‘259) 5,403,259 Apr. 4, 1995
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