Appeal No. 97-4161
Application 08/397,408
state, is bursting of the pillow areas creating by the
embossing due to the stress of the embossing process. The
invention seeks to solve this problem by providing an initial
step in which a relatively fine preparatory base pattern of
pin-like displacements is embossed onto the web, which is
followed by placing a second embossed pattern onto the web,
such that the second pattern defines pillow-like areas. As
manifested in both the method and the apparatus claims, the
first pattern contains 35-400 displacements per square inch,
and each of the pillow-like areas contains from 1 to 100 of
the pin-like displacements.
The first rejection set forth by the examiner is that
independent claims 1 and 11 are unpatentable in view of
Bauernfeind ‘728, which discloses a system for making a multi
layer embossed roll product in which each of two webs is
provided with a first embossing pattern, after which glue is
applied to at least one web prior to the webs being joined
together by a marrying roll. The marrying roll impresses a
different pattern than the first embossing, the result of
which is that the webs are joined at irregular points. This,
according to the patent, results in a more bulky product. See
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