Appeal No. 1998-1825
Application No. 08/658,014
13 stand or fall together. Claim 10 stands alone.” In
accordance with 37 CFR 1.192(c)(7), we have selected claims 8,
9 and 10 for consideration in this appeal and will decide the
issues on appeal based on these claims alone.
With regard to the examiner's rejection of claim 8 under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) based on Huck in view of Asar, we find that
the examiner has failed to establish a prima facie case of
obviousness.
Huck discloses an apparatus for registering continuous
webs of sheet material (W , W , W and W ) wherein the plurality1 2 3 4
of webs are brought together at a station located past rollers
(30) in accurate register, each with one another. Each of
the webs is mounted on a separate roller (11). The web is
unwound and travels to rollers (22) and (23), respectively.
After passing roller (23), the web is guided around rollers
(26-30) to the station where it is collated with other webs
which have followed similar paths.
[F]loating roller 23 is effective to detect any
deviation from a predetermined value of tension in
the unwound web W and is correspondingly displaced
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