Appeal No. 96-3945
Application 08/095,016
artisan, the top and bottom roller arrangements 52, 53 as well
as the discharge roller assembly 57 would have provided
additional teachings of the mechanical means with which to
discharge Kinoshita's imaged transparency for insertion into
the input of Ambro's color image proofing apparatus generally
shown in Figure 2. Thus, we consider the automatic receiving
recitation of dependent claim 23 as well as the automatic and
manual feeding and receiving arrangement of dependent claims
25 and 34 to have been obvious to the artisan within 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 upon a due consideration of the collective teachings and
suggestions of both references relied upon. Moreover, the
recitation in dependent claim 34 of an imaging device merely
providing an outlet opening which broadly “cooperates with”
the receiving means of the claimed print making processor
clearly would have been obvious within Ambro's teachings alone
since this broadly recited arrangement even includes an
ability of the user/operator to physically transfer the output
of the transparency from the trays 61, 62 of Figure 1 of
Kinoshita into the input at the right portion of Ambro's
Figure 2.
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