Appeal No. 1997-2986
Application No. 08/260,784
locations on the belt of conveyor 2. Claim 5 further
specifies that pieces are transferred to particular locations
on the receiver means from corresponding locations on the
sorting means. It would have been obvious to store the plates
on pallet 7 in the same number of locations that they occupy
on the conveyor belt. The rejection of this claim is also
affirmed.
Claim 6 calls for unloading means to have a conveyor with
a plurality of tiltable sections for enabling each finished
piece of a given dimension to be deposited onto a
corresponding locations at the storage area of the receiver
means in the unloading means. Although Taijonlahti shows a
tiltable section which can be used to deliver "reject material
and/or small pieces or the like from conveyor mechanism 2 onto
a receiving structure 13, such as pallets or belt or like
conveyors therebelow" (col. 4, lines 48-50), only one tiltable
section is disclosed or suggested. The rejection of claim 6
is therefore reversed.
The rejection of claims 11, 14, 20 is affirmed for the
reasons given in the discussion of similar claim 3.
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