Appeal No. 1999-0114
Application No. 08/656,286
distinguishes over Weiss on the basis of the capability of the
adhesive to produce a bond having the characteristics called
for in the last three lines of the claim.
Cosmo, the examiner’s secondary reference in the
rejection of claim 11, is directed to a machine for wrapping a
sheet of wrapping material about a generally cylindrical
article. To this end, a first end of a web of sheet material
6 is adhered to cylindrical article 1 at station 17 as the
cylindrical article rolls down an inclined infeed table 3.
Thereafter, a predetermined length of the wrapping material is
cut from the web so that as the article continues to roll down
the infeed table, the wrapping material wraps itself about the
article. The wrapped article is then fed by a conveyor 31
through a heat tunnel 70 where the wrapping material is heat-
shrunk into tight engagement with the article. Cosmo
discloses (column 4, line 54 through column 5, line 18)
various systems for adhering the wrapping material to the
article at station 17, including a water atomizing system
(Figure 4), a contact adhesive applying system (Figure 5), and
a electrostatic generator system (Figure 6).
Because of the need in Cosmo for only a light and
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