Appeal No. 1999-0231
Application No. 08/472,354
circumferential surface, for connecting an interface of the
blanket cylinder and the printing blanket to a low pressure
region” cannot be read on the widely spaced grooves 10b in
Fellows. The embodiment shown in Figure 4 of
Fellows has neither the expansion means nor the means
extending axially across a length of the blanket cylinder
circumferential surface, for connecting an interface of the
blanket cylinder and the printing blanket to a low pressure
region.
Further, the embodiments shown in Figures 1 and 4 of
Fellows are so disparate (one uses an undersized sleeve
mounted on an oversized cylinder by expanding the sleeve with
compressed air, the other uses an undersized cylinder
connected to a vacuum
source for securing an oversized sleeve to the cylinder) that
we know of no reason why one of ordinary skill in the art
would have been motivated to combine their various features in
the specific manner set forth in claim 1.
While we recognize that Arkell does suggest a printing
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