Appeal No. 98-2152
Application No. 08/638,429
Stefan Dopke and Burkhard Maass (the appellants) appeal
from the final rejection of claims 5-11, 15 and 16. Claims 2
12 and 13, the only other claims remaining in the application,
have been indicated as being allowable subject to the
requirement that they be rewritten to include all of the
subject matter of the claims from which they depend.
The appellants' invention pertains to a sheet processing
machine having a feeding table and a sheet-guiding assembly.
The machine includes a "hold-downer" (a hold-down device) that
is slidably disposed towards and away from the table and a
spring having an adjustable spring force that bears against
the hold-downer. Independent claim 5 is further illustrative
of the appealed subject matter and a copy thereof may be found
in the Appendix to the brief.
The reference relied on by the examiner is:
Bakke 1,068,406 Jul. 29, 1913
2Claims 5 and 16 have been amended subsequent to final
rejection by an amendment filed on June 7, 1997 (Paper No. 9).
Although the advisory action mailed on August 6, 1997 (Paper
No. 10) indicated that this amendment would be entered for
purposes of appeal, we note that no clerical entry of this
amendment has in fact been made.
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