Appeal No. 97-1426
Application 08/380,125
We reverse the rejection of claim 4 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Japan '204 in view of
Matsuo.
The difficulty that we have with this rejection of
claim 4 is that it is apparent to us that the evidence of
obviousness simply would not have been suggestive of the
claimed rolling unit to one having ordinary skill in the art.
The Japan '204 document clearly minimizes shaft
space between neighboring roller sets, with neighboring sets
shifted in 90° phase to the pass line. However, a review of
each of the applied documents, alone and collectively, reveals
to us that neither Japan '204 nor Matsuo (rolling mill with
eccentric
sleeves for draft adjustment) teaches or would have been
suggestive of rotational axes of eccentric sleeves being
spaced from opposite first and second sides of a housing by
first and second housing portions, with the width of the first
housing portion in the direction of a rolling line being less
than the
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