Appeal No. 1997-3816
Application No. 08/512,313
The appellant’s invention is directed to a press section
of a paper machine. The claims on appeal have been reproduced
in an appendix to the Brief.
THE REFERENCES
The references relied upon by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
Laapotti (Laapotti ’682) 4,576,682 Mar.
18, 1986
Ilmarinen et al. (Ilmarinen) 4,909,905 Mar.
20, 1990
Dahl 4,915,790 Apr.
10, 1990
Laapotti (Laapotti ’762) 4,919,762 Apr.
24, 1990
Karvinen et al. (Karvinen) 4,931,143 Jun. 5,
1990
Laapotti (Laapotti ’046) 5,043,046 Aug.
27, 1991
Bluhm et al. (Bluhm) 5,071,513 Dec. 10,
1991
Mirsberger - "Shoe Presses For Intensive Dewatering Of Paper
And Board," Das Papier, vol. 43, pp. 130-138, Oct. 1989
(Mirsberger)1
The prior art admitted by the appellant on page 6 of the
specification (see Examiner’s Answer, page 5).
1Our understanding of this reference was obtained by means
of a PTO translation, a copy of which is enclosed.
2
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