Appeal No. 1996-2624
Application No. 08/186,352
We REVERSE.
The subject matter on appeal is directed to an apparatus
(claims 1, 3 through 19, 21 and 22) and method (claim 20) for
receiving discrete parts traveling at a first speed and
applying the parts to a web traveling at a different speed.
An under-standing of the invention can be derived from a
reading of exemplary claims 1 and 20, a copy of which are
reproduced in the opinion, below. The other claims on appeal
can be found in the "Appendix" to the brief (Paper No. 10).
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Bosse 3,835,756 Sep. 17,
1974
Ring 3,952,607 Apr.
27, 1976
Radzins 4,364,787 Dec. 21,
1982
Eschler 4,610,751 Sep. 09,
1986
Katori 4,788,891 Dec. 06,
1988
Ujimoto et al. (Ujimoto) 5,091,039 Feb.
25, 1992
Langford et al. (Langford) 5,105,675 Apr. 21,
1992
The following rejections are before us for review:
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