Appeal No. 1997-2256
Application No. 08/427,706
between clamping means that operate independently outside of
the mold and move vertically at the outer peripheral frame of
the mold."
The examiner does not specifically indicate what is
lacking in the teachings of Matsui ‘201, but relies on Matsui
EP as teaching that it is conventional in the art to have a
skin material fixing frame that uses pin means (7) which
extend through the skin material (3) to support and position
the skin material during a molding process. The examiner then
concludes that it would have been obvious to one of ordinary
skill in the art to support the edges of the skin material
when performing the process set forth in Matsui ‘201 by using
pin means as set forth in Matsui EP, "for equivalently
achieving the desired positioning."
Appellants point out (brief, page 7) that Matsui ‘201
teaches that the force applied to hold the skin material (10)
during the molding process therein is controlled so that the
skin material gradually shifts into the mold as the molding
progresses, and therefore that the holding force is not so
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