Appeal No. 97-1035
Application 08/217,657
briefs (Paper Nos. 15 and 18) and to the examiner’s answer
(Paper No. 16) for the respective positions of the appellant
and the examiner with regard to the merits of these
rejections.
Poloni, the examiner’s primary reference, discloses a
high speed flying shears 10 for cutting the head and tail
portions from the central body portion of rolled stock 18.
The shears includes two contra-rotatable knives 14 each
bearing a respective blade 17. The rolled stock advances to
the shears via a laterally movable guide 11 which shifts the
stock into and out of alignment with the blades. After
passing through the shearing region, the cut stock proceeds to
a conveyor channel 13 having an internal wall 27 and extension
partition 16 which divide the channel into two laterally
disposed sub-channels. One of the sub-channels receives the
cropped head and tail portions of the stock and guides them
ultimately to a scrap shears 36, while the other sub-channel
receives the main body portion of the stock and guides it
ultimately to an entraining means 135 leading to, for example,
a coiling plant. The conveyor channel 13 can be either
immovable or slightly movable in a lateral direction to ensure
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