Appeal No. 1998-0853
Application No. 08/381,364
Reference is made to the reply brief (Paper No. 16) and the answer for the respective
positions of the appellants and the examiner with regard to the merits of these rejections.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given careful consideration to the
appellants' specification and claims, to the applied prior art references, and to the respective
positions articulated by the appellants and the examiner. As a consequence of our review, we
cannot sustain the examiner's rejections.
The examiner finds that Schroth discloses the subject matter of claim 1 except
providing a variable angular velocity on the rotating transport assembly in order
to synchronizely [sic: synchronously] feed the discrete strips onto a transport
head (32) of the rotating transfer assembly at a first speed and transfer the
discrete strips onto a moving sheet at a second speed [answer, page 5].
The examiner's basis for concluding that the subject matter of claim 1 would have been
obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art, as articulated on pages 5 and 6 of the answer, is as
follows:
it would have been obvious in the art to provide a variable angular velocity on
the rotating transport assembly in order to synchronizely [sic: synchronously]
feed the discrete strips onto a transport head of the rotating transfer assembly at
a first speed and transfer the discrete strips onto a moving sheet at a second
speed in the process of Schroth et al because: a) APA discloses that in
manufacturing disposal [sic: disposable] diapers, it is conventional in the art to
feed discrete parts at a speed which is different from the speed of a product
moving web (specification, page 1 lines 15-24); and b) Bosse discloses providing
a rotating transfer assembly with a variable rotational velocity so that the velocity
of a holders (19, 19') can be synchronized with the feeding web (F) speed and
the receiving web (32) speed, where the feeding web speed could be different
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