Appeal No. 96-0655
Application No. 08/052,507
identified any suggestion or motivation to modify the tabular
formation shown by Judkins by trimming or shearing. The tabs
22 of Judkins are formed from either a single piece of
material (Figure 4) or when splicing together two different
pieces of material (14 and 14' in Figure 4A). These tabs can
also be formed when the material is fashioned in a honeycomb
structure (Judkins, column 9, lines 56-63). However, the
examiner has not identified any suggestion in the prior art to
modify the splicing or tab formation in Judkins by the
shearing of the ends of a belt in Worcester to achieve the
method recited in appealed claim 9. The examiner has not
identified why the shearing of the ends of a belt in Worcester
to provide mating faces (see Worcester, column 2, lines 17-29)
would have suggested a trimming step of the overlapping
material forming a tab in Judkins.
Additionally, Worcester is directed to improving the
strength of a spliced section of a belt that does not have
overlapping sections by cutting grooves into the belt,
cementing cords such as KEVLARŪ in the grooves and then curing
the product (column 1, lines 17-18 and 40-44). The examiner
7
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007