Appeal No. 2001-0350
Application 09/243,835
Lindner extends the teachings of the various sensors of
Wieland to the need for properly sensing the proper registration
of the printing plate 11 onto the plate cylinder 10 by the use of
various control units 60's subsystems shown in Figure 1, even
though Lindner is silent as to any pre-registration in a plate
feeding device.
Although Wieland's various figures appear to show the
rotation of the print cylinder 12 in only one direction, the
earlier noted discussion of the control desk 87 indicates that
the computer therein controls the rotation of the printing plate
during the application of the printing plate thereto. This is
discussed generally at column 5 and at column 11 to the end of
the patent. On the other hand, Nobuta indicates in his various
figures the bidirectional rotatability of the printing cylinder
PC during preregistered plate feeding operations. As correctly
pointed out by the examiner at page 5 of the answer, the plate
cylinder 10 in Lindner may be rotated either in a forward or
backward direction (paragraph bridging columns 4 and 5) during
the process of actually affixing the printing plate 11 to the
printing plate cylinder 10. This appears to be explicit in the
discussion beginning at column 5, line 45 when a new printing
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