Appeal No. 95-2502
Application No. 07/763,625
Appellants’ invention relates to a method (claims 1, 4
through 9, 21 and 22) and to an apparatus (claims 10, 11 and
14 through 20) for determining a variation in control data of
an automatic piecing operation for an automatic thread-
producing spinner. The data produced in appellants’ invention
includes measurements of the diameter of a monitored length of
thread containing the piecer, deviations of the measured
thread diameter from a given thread diameter and the locations
of those deviations relative to the piecer.
A copy of the appealed claims 1, 4 through 11 and 14
through 21 is appended to appellants’ brief. A copy of 2
appealed claim 22 is found on page 2 of the examiner’s answer.
In rejecting the appealed claims, the examiner relies
upon the following reference:
Raasch et al. 4,825,632 May 2, 1989
(Raasch)
Claims 1, 4 through 11 and 14 through 22 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Raasch, and
claims 4 through 9 and 20 additionally stand rejected under 35
2 In the preamble of claim 1, we have interpreted the
recitation of “improving the piecer” to refer to a future
piecer, not a piecer that has already been formed.
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