Appeal No. 97-1890
Application 08/338,707
application. Appellants filed an after final amendment
amending claim 1. The Examiner in an advisory action, mailed
June 25, 1996, stated that upon the filing of an appeal, the
proposed amendment, filed June 10, 1996, will be entered. We
note that the amendment has been entered into the record and
thereby, amended claim 1 is properly before us for our
consideration.
Appellants’ invention relates to an asynchronous control
method and apparatus for insertion devices.
Independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method for controlling an insertion apparatus
having a plurality of operations arranged for transporting an
envelope and for transporting and inserting a collation into
the envelope, said method comprising the steps of providing
respective event signals in accordance with selected events
associated with the operations, providing a plurality of motor
profiles for operation of motors associated with the
operations, controlling respective pluralities of motors
associated with respective operations of the apparatus in
correspondence with selected ones of said plurality of motor
profiles for controlling driving of said motors in response to
receiving the event signals.
The references relied on by the Examiner are as
follows:
Kapp et al. 4,733,310 Mar. 22,
1988
Francisco 5,003,485 Mar.
26, 1991
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