Appeal No. 1996-2624
Application No. 08/186,352
illustrated in appellants' Figures 3A-5. Claim 17 calls for,
inter alia, first, second and third rotatable transferring
means; driving means for transmitting rotational energy, said
driving means including a rotatable noncircular drive gear;
first, second and third driven means for accepting said energy
from said driving means, each driven means including at least
one rotatable noncircular driven gear.
Ujimoto does teach four independently rotatable rotor
elements [26] for applying severed pieces onto a continuous
web (col. 3, line 10 et seq.) as described by the examiner
(Paper No. 3, page 7). However, Ujimoto fails to provide the
necessary motivation for modifying Bosse according to the
teachings of Ring. Therefore, the combined teachings of the
applied references are not suggestive of the invention set
forth in claim 17 through 19.
In summary and for the above reasons, the decision of the
examiner:
to reject claims 1, 3 through 5, 14 through 16 and 20
through 22 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Bosse in view of Katori is reversed;
to reject claims 1, 3 through 6, 14 through 16 and 20
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