Appeal No. 96-0425 Page 7
Application No. 08/108,986
art. See, e.g., Grain Processing Corp. v. American
Maize-Products Co., 840 F.2d 902, 907, 5 USPQ2d 1788, 1792
(Fed. Cir. 1988).
With this as background, we turn to the examiner's
rejection of claim 1, the only independent claim on appeal.
Claim 1 recites:
In an apparatus for transporting printing works
products, the products comprising partially or completely
finished books, said transporting apparatus including the
capability of altering the arrangement of the transported
products between generally vertically arranged stacks of
products and individual products, the improvement
comprising:
first conveyor means for transporting stacks of the
said products;
second conveyor means for transporting individual of
the said products as a serial stream of products;
means positioned intermediate said first and second
conveyor means for supporting a stack of products, said
supporting means including means for controlling the
motion of the uppermost product in a stack between a
position on a supported stack of products and a position
on said second conveyor means;
means for adjusting the vertical relationship
between said supporting means and the end of said second
conveyor means which is located in closest proximity to
said supporting means, said adjusting means causing the
vertical position of the uppermost product of the stack
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