Appeal No. 1997-0595 Page 17
Application No. 08/154,911
teaches that web material is engaged by the conveyor 32 prior
to the cutting operation.
Claims 1 to 6, 10 and 12-17
The examiner determined (answer, p. 4) that it would have
been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person
having ordinary skill in the art to have modified "the dunnage
production mechanism of Ottaviano by adding the Engel conveyor
to transfer dunnage away from the cutting assembly." We
agree. In fact, the appellant has admitted (specification, p.
3) that typically, the cut pad from a machine such as
disclosed by Ottaviano '776 is transferred downstream to a
table, conveyor belt, or bin.
Implicit in this rejection is the examiner's view that
the above noted modification of Ottaviano '776 would result in
an apparatus which corresponds to the apparatus recited in
claims 1 to 6, 10 and 12 and a method which corresponds to the
method recited in claims 13-17 in all respects.
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