Ex parte DAWLEY et al. - Page 11




          Appeal No. 1999-0231                                                        
          Application No. 08/472,354                                                  


               [i]t would have been obvious . . . to utilize the                      
               mounting and supporting system in Fellows for any                      
               conventional printing member, including a blanket                      
               cylinder and printing blanket such as exemplified by                   
               each of Arkell (GB 1 401 695), Tittgemeyer, Vrotacoe                   
               and Fischer. The motivation would have involved                        
               merely the desire to obtain the expected and desired                   
               results from a choice of conventional tubular sleeve                   
               members.                                                               
          Id.                                                                         
               The appellants argue in the main brief (p. 4) that the                 
          combination of the expansion means for installation and                     
          removal                                                                     


          of an undersized gapless tubular printing blanket and the                   
          means extending axially across a length of the blanket                      
          cylinder for removal of the fluid wave is not taught or                     
          suggested by Fellows or Arkell, either individually or in                   
          combination.  We agree.                                                     
               The embodiment shown in Figure 1 of Fellows does include               
          an expansion means for installation and removal of an                       
          undersized gapless tubular printing blanket in the form of                  
          passageway 16 and grooves 10b.  However, as we have                         
          interpreted claim 1, supra, the language “a means extending                 
          axially across a length of the blanket cylinder                             

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