Appeal No. 1998-2899
Application No. 08/632,687
claim is patentable over the prior art under 35 U.S.C. §§ 102
and 103 begins with a determination of the scope of the claim.
The properly interpreted claim must then be compared with the
prior art. Accordingly, we will initially direct our
attention to the appellants' claim 32, which is the only
independent claim on appeal, to derive an understanding of the
scope and content thereof.
Claim 32 calls for an apparatus for reducing procession
of a gapless tubular printing sleeve comprising: a gapless
tubular printing sleeve; a cylinder having an outer
circumference which
is greater than the inner circumference of the printing
sleeve; a passage [e.g., air canal 60, Fig. 3] provided on the
circumferential surface of the cylinder through which
pressurized air is applied to rapidly expand the printing
sleeve for installation of the sleeve onto and removal of the
sleeve from the cylinder; and a means extending substantially
across a length of the cylinder for connecting an interface of
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