Appeal No. 1996-0208
Application 08/098,153
Thus a press with vertically stacked multiple dies is provided
so that a “plurality of blanks are simultaneously shaped into
a plurality of three-dimensionally shaped paper products
within separate die cavities in each forming cycle. . . . ”
(preamble of appealed claim 14). Thus, because each paper
blank is separately shaped from the other (specification, page
9), shaped paperboard products having superior shape
definition, rigidity, and patterning characteristics are
produced. See the specification at page 6, lines 1 and 2.
The appealed claim also requires the step of “providing” (see
footnote 2) an accompanying guide means to this multi-die
press which means includes a movable guide means and multiple
stationary guide means aligned with the multiple die cavities
and allows for feeding of the paper blanks into each die. See
step (b) of appealed claim 14.
THE REJECTIONS UNDER 35 U.S.C. § 103
The examiner relies on three references in an attempt to
establish that the claimed method would have been obvious to
one of ordinary skill in the art. Dowd, referred to above, is
cited by the examiner to teach the basic forming apparatus
which appellant seeks to retrofit (see Dowd’s Figure 1).
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