Appeal No. 1997-1369
Application No. 08/224,588
Claims 1 and 8 are representative of the subject matter
on appeal and read as follows:
1. An automatic web material connecting apparatus
comprising:
a pair of blocks arranged so as to be able to move
relatively and be pressed against each other in a
direction to cross a feed path for a first web material
and a feed path for a second web material;
retaining means for retaining the first and second
web materials on respective opposite faces of said pair
of blocks;
cutting means, associated with said pair of blocks,
for cutting a desired one of the first and second web
materials; and
driving means for relatively moving said pair of
blocks, whereby the desired web material is cut by
said cutting means while said pair of blocks are moving
relative to each other;
wherein said cutting means essentially consists of,
a rotating body rockable between the feed paths
for the first and second web materials on an upper-
course side of said pair of blocks,
first and second knives fixed individually to
said pair of blocks,
a single third knife fixed to said rotating
body, and actuator means for rotating said rotating
body between a first rotational position in which
said third knife faces said first knife and a second
rotational position in which said third knife faces
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