Appeal No. 2000-0582
Application 08/851,017
control roller, springs 20 for urging the control roller
into rolling contact with the control cam, a stepper or
servo motor 37, 54 operatively connected to the control cam
for adjusting
its orientation relative to the control roller, and a
measuring head 44 for sensing the actual position of a sheet
side edge. In use (see column 5, line 27 et seq.), a sheet
is fed to sheet transfer drum 1 and gripped by fingers 12 on
carriage 8, the actual position of the sheet side edge is
sensed by measuring head 44, the actual position is compared
with a desired position and any difference between the two
is utilized to control the operation of stepper or servo
motor 37, 54 to adjust the orientation of control cam 22 so
as to cause carriage 8 to translate the sheet gripped by
fingers 12 to the desired position.
Anticipation is established only when a single prior
art reference discloses, expressly or under principles of
inherency, each and every element of a claimed invention.
RCA Corp. v. Applied Digital Data Sys., Inc., 730 F.2d 1440,
1444, 221 USPQ 385, 388 (Fed. Cir. 1984). In other words,
there must be no difference between the claimed invention
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