Appeal No. 2001-0350
Application 09/243,835
device, and then fed to a plate cylinder and clamped into a
leading edge clamping device of the plate cylinder, which
comprises:
detecting the in-register pre-positioning be sensors and, if
appropriate, correcting the pre-positioning, and then
transferring the printing plate in-register to the leading edge
clamping device of the plate cylinder;
holding the printing plate in the position of the in-register
prepositioning, and rotating the plate cylinder backwards so that
the printing plate is received in the leading edge clamping
device.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Sugiyama et al. (Sugiyama) 5,094,165 Mar. 10, 1992
Wieland 5,331,893 July 26, 1994
Lindner et al. (Lindner) 5,479,859 Jan. 2, 1996
Nobuta et al. (Nobuta) 5,715,751 Feb. 10, 1998
(filing date July 25, 1995)
Claims 2 and 3 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. ' 103.1 As
evidence of obviousness, the examiner relies upon Wieland in view
of Sugiyama, further in view of Nobuta and Lindner.
1 Although the final rejection indicates a rejection of
independent claim 2 and its dependent claim 3 under 35 U.S.C.
103, page 3 of the answer indicates that the examiner only
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