Appeal No. 1999-1728 Page 5
Application No. 08/750,041
argued that Hermann does not teach or suggest the claimed
arrangement of connectors and connector elements (brief, page
4). The importance of providing a connector to each pair of
vertical posts in the framework whether the connector is
needed or not is argued in the reply brief (at page 1). The
appellants conclude that there is no support in Hermann for
this feature.
We find that Hermann discloses eighteen modules aligned
in a linear array (Figs. 6A and 6B) with mechanisms for
operating on, or relative to, a moving web (specification,
col. 13, lines 30-55). Each module (400) (Fig. 8) has upright
members (410) (posts) to which is mounted plates or panels
(450) for holding the mechanisms. The mechanisms include
continuously and intermittently operating mechanisms with the
continuously operating mechanisms being preferably driven by
DC electric motors (M) mounted within the frame and, many or
all of, the intermittently operating mechanisms being
preferably driven from a common rotating main drive shaft
(188) (col. 20, lines 38-50). Our review of Hermann's
disclosure reveals the above teaching of how the mechanisms
are driven, however Hermann does not teach or suggest the
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