Appeal No. 95-4806
Application No. 08/155,730
coil, wherein the closed ends of the bags would emerge
oriented in the direction of travel. The crux of the
invention is manifested in claim 47 in the following passages:
e. the web being flattened and wound in a coil
having, prior to dispensing, a center opening of a
diameter at least as great as the width of the web;
and
f. the coiled web being oriented such that as the
web is fed along a path of travel from the center
opening bags of the web are fed along such path
closed end first.
Claim 51 differs only in the manner in which the opening is
described:
e. the web being flattened and wound in an annular
coil having, prior to dispensing, a center opening
from which the web is free to be fed for packaging
operations, the opening being sized such that a web
comprised of a series of such bags may be fed from
the coil center opening to a packaging station
without causing premature separation along one or
more of such lines of weakness.
The examiner has taken the position that all of the subject
matter recited in independent claims 47 and 51 “except for the
opening constructed to permit dispensing therefrom” is
disclosed in Lerner, but that from Benoit “it was known in the
art to dispense bags from a center opening of a coil of bags,”
and therefore it would have been obvious to provide the coil
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