Appeal No. 1998-2179 Page 7 Application No. 08/433,231 taken, in light of Newsome's teaching that running shingles are a convenient way of transporting signatures into processing devices such as stackers (an alternative form of storage), etc. As disclosed by Newsome, the output of a printing press is often stored for subsequent processing for various reasons. In these cases, the output of the signature-forming machine is converted into stacks for storage and the stacks are later fed into a processing device of one kind or another (column 1, lines 37-49). This discussion of Newsome explains to our satisfaction why one of ordinary skill in the art would have been motivated to convert the signatures to stacks for temporary storage before feeding them to a winding apparatus of the type taught by Reist to form a package. The appellant's brief (page 8) also states that claim 12 "expressly recites that the blanks are fed one after the other which, as illustrated and described in the [appellant's] specification, means not overlapping," which we interpret as an argument that Newsome, even if modified as proposed by the examiner, would not meet the limitation "first conveying means for feeding the blanks individually one after the other" in independent claim 12. For the reasons which follow, we do not find this argument persuasive with regard to apparatus claims 12, 19 and 20. In proceedings before it, the PTO applies to the verbiage of claims the broadest reasonable meaning of the words in their ordinary usage as they would be understood by one of ordinary skill in the art, taking into account whatever enlightenment by way of definitionsPage: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007