Appeal No. 1999-0050
Application 08/499,111
application, stand withdrawn from consideration pursuant to 37
CFR § 1.142(b). The subject matter on appeal relates to a
gripper cylinder for use in a sheet handling machine. Claim 1
is illustrative and reads as follows:
1. A gripper cylinder for a folding apparatus,
comprising:
a cylinder shaft;
a cylinder body mounted on the cylinder shaft;
at least two gripper stations mounted on the cylinder
body and including grippers and corresponding gripper
bases, each of the gripper bases being configured as a
roller having a periphery formed of a plurality of surfaces
at different distances from a center of the roller; and
adjusting means for adjusting the gripper stations so
that a distance between each gripper and its corresponding
gripper base corresponds to a thickness of a product to be
gripped, the adjusting means being operative to
simultaneously adjust all the gripper stations, the
adjusting means further being operative to adjust the
gripper bases.
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Kirn et al. (Kirn) 3,680,642 Aug. 1,
1972
Jeschke et al. (Jeschke) 4,667,952 May
26, 1987
Claims 1, 4, 5, 9, 10 and 15 through 17 stand rejected
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