Appeal No. 1998-3271
Application No. 08/563,156
block having a base portion remote from the web and a taper
portion more proximate the web (figure 2), the feed block having
a coating supply reservoir (13) within the base portion and
extending longitudinally substantially the length thereof
(figures 2 and 3), the taper portion tapering from the base
portion towards the web and terminating in a tip portion
proximate the web (figure 2), the tip portion including an
exterior surface (10) which extends longitudinally the length of
the tip portion and parallel with and facing the web (figure 2),
the feed block having a plurality of coating feed
passageways (14) terminating in apertures (11) formed in the tip
portion exterior surface, the apertures communicating with the
reservoir via respective associated coating feed passageways
serially disposed with a longitudinally elongated passageway in
the feed block (figure 3). Hence, Watanabe anticipates the
apparatus recited in the appellants’ claim 5.
The appellants argue that Watanabe’s figure 5 shows that
each of the apertures is connected to a common groove rather than
to a plurality of feed passageways as required by the appellants’
claim 5 (brief, pages 10-11). This argument is not persuasive
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