Appeal No. 97-3990
Application 08/531,069
across the projections in a horizontal direction in view of
the teachings of Broden. The examiner is further of the
opinion that:
It would have been obvious to one
having ordinary skill in the art at the
time the invention was made to combine the
teachings of Curtis with the teachings of
Parker [sic, Parker '259, Parker '352,
Parker '013 or Parker '972] in order to
reliable [sic, reliably] crumple thin bands
of paper cushioning members cut by roller
members (i.e.[,] adding [sic] inserting at
least one sheet of work paper between
cutting rollers, feeding said work paper
through a wave-forming guide and forcibly
compressing said work paper inside said
wave-forming guide to Curtis), since Parker
[sic, Parker '259, Parker '352, Parker '013
or Parker '972] teaches that manufacturing
thin bands of crumpled paper cushioning
members by inserting at least one sheet of
work paper between cutting rollers, feeding
said work paper through a wave-forming
guide and forcibly compressing said work
paper inside said wave-forming guide in
order to finely crumple said thin bands was
old and well known at the time the
invention was made. [Answer, pages 5 and
6.]
In response to the appellant's argument that the device of
Curtis is directed to a metal slitting apparatus that is not
properly combinable with the paper folding and crimping device
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