Appeal No. 1997-3975
Application No. 08/395,376
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134
from the examiner’s final rejection of claims 9-11 and 13-18,
which constitute all the claims remaining in the application.
An amendment after final rejection was filed on January 6,
1997 but was denied entry by the examiner.
The invention pertains to an apparatus for sensing
characteristics of elongate entities having length and width
and being carried in an airflow. The invention is disclosed
as having particular utility when used with an Advanced Fiber
Information System (AFIS). More particularly, the invention
has analyzing means for distinguishing between sensor signals
corresponding to looped entities and sensor signals
corresponding to not looped entities.
Representative claim 9 is reproduced as follows:
9. An apparatus for sensing characteristics of elongate
entities having length and width and being carried in an
airflow, at least a portion of the entities being in a looped
condition in which an entity is folded back on itself along
its length; comprising:
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