Appeal No. 1998-0632
Application 08/301,812
The examiner's concerns with respect to the phrase
"action units" is misplaced as well because such term is
defined at page 11 of the specification as filed at lines 14
and 15 by giving examples of them, such as nozzle or heating
pads inside the action station itself. Because bottle sensor
103 and bottle sensor 108 and prior Figure 1 senses the bottle
positions during filling and after filling respectively, it is
possible from the image processor analysis to identify a given
fill nozzle 104, for example, as being one which over or under
fills the containers 109. This concept is related to the
correlation and the predicating functions of the claims on
appeal and otherwise generally expressed in the specification
as filed as a monitoring and feedback control for the process
control of the claimed production line as set forth, for
example, at the end of representative claim 51 on appeal. An
object of the invention as expressed at page 3 is to basically
correlate a malfunctioning unit with inspected containers for
quality and process control purposes. An additional object at
the bottom of page 4 and at the top of page 5 of the
specification as filed is "to correlate a fill nozzle on a
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