Appeal No. 1998-2206
Application No. 08/537,143
We cannot sustain the examiner's respective rejections of
appellants' claims.
Independent claim 1 is drawn to a former for forming an
elongated planar bag-making material into a tubular form, with
the former comprising, inter alia, a hollow cylindrical
tubular part defining an axial direction, and a shoulder part
having a planar guide section which is connected to the
tubular part along a connecting line which surrounds the
tubular part, the angle between a tangent to the connecting
line tangentially contacting the connecting line at a contact
point and a plane perpendicular to the axial direction
changing at a constant rate.
Independent claim 16 sets forth a packaging machine
comprising, inter alia, a web supporting means, a former, web
guiding means, a longitudinal sealer, a transverse sealer,
with the former including a hollow cylindrical tubular part
defining an axial direction, and a shoulder part having a
planar guide section which is connected to the tubular part
along a connecting line which surrounds the tubular part, the
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