Appeal No. 1997-0533
Application No. 08/353,916
patterned surface of the chilled roller 19 with the exposed
surface of the polyethylene having a smooth configuration
(column 4, lines 31-43). In the process disclosed by
Anderson, any metal foil used never comes in contact with the
surface of the chilled roller 19 (see Figure 3; column 3,
lines 40-61).
Brinley is directed to the same process as the claimed
subject matter on appeal except that the polymer film 5 of
Brinley is embossed while the claimed process embosses a metal
foil (compare Figure 1 of Brinley with the Figure of this
application). The examiner has not pointed to any disclosure
or suggestion of a metal foil in Brinley. The process of
Brinley forms sequential layers of paper, molten resin, and
polymeric film, where the heat of the molten resin is
transferred to the outer polymeric film to raise the film
above its plastic set temperature, i.e., the temperature above
which an applied stress will cause permanent deformation of
the film. Therefore the exposed surface of the polymeric film
is able to assume the pattern of the engraved chill roll 7
(column 4, lines 16-27).
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