Appeal No. 1998-3271
Application No. 08/563,156
even if it is correct, because Watanabe’s figure 5 pertains to a
second embodiment (col. 6, lines 9 and 38), and the apparatus
recited in the appellants’ claim 5 is anticipated by Watanabe’s
first embodiment (col. 4, line 45 - col. 6, line 8), which is the
embodiment discussed above.
Accordingly, we affirm the rejection of claims 5-11 and
18-25 over Watanabe.
Rejection of claims 5-8, 12, 18-20, 26 and 27
under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) over Columbus
Columbus discloses an apparatus for applying a coating
material under pressure to a surface of a traveling continuous
web (abstract; col. 3, lines 32-38; figure 12), comprising a
longitudinally elongated feed block (120A) transversely disposed
with respect to the direction of web travel (figures 12 and 13),
the feed block having a base portion remote from the web and a
taper portion more proximate the web (figure 12), the feed block
having a coating supply reservoir within the base portion and
extending longitudinally substantially the length thereof
(figures 12 and 13), the taper portion tapering from the base
portion towards the web and terminating in a tip portion
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