Appeal No. 1998-3271
Application No. 08/563,156
presently claimed. Consequently, we reverse the examiner’s
rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph.
Rejections of claim 3 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over Kasamatsu
and claim 4 over Kasamatsu in view of Chino
Kasamatsu discloses an apparatus for applying a liquid
coating (10) to a surface of a traveling continuous web (15),
including a die (1) (i.e., a nozzle) extending across the width
of the web transversely to a direction of the web (figure 5), the
die including a plurality of spaced apart discharge openings (4)
arranged at predetermined distances in a row along the
longitudinal direction of the die (figure 4), a flat surface (71)
at a tip of the die facing the web (figure 5), the flat surface
being downstream of the discharge openings respecting the
direction of travel of the web (figure 3A), for governing
thickness uniformity of the coating applied to the traveling web
from the die (col. 3, lines 24-28; figure 5). Thus, Kasamatsu
anticipates the apparatus recited in the appellants’ claim 3.
The appellants argue that “the flat surface recited in
claim 3 as being at the tip of the nozzle facing the web is not
anticipated by surface 70 in Kasamatsu as contended by the
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