Appeal No. 2001-1765
Application No. 09/159,972
force applied to the web by a take-up roll, with the take-up roll
being one of a pair of rolls for advancing the carrier web beyond
a delaminator. Independent claim 2 recites an apparatus for
printing and dispensing labels releasably adhered to a carrier
web with the feature of a take-up roll disposed downstream of a
delaminator, and wherein first, second, and third gears are
interfaced such that the second gear drives a platen roll and the
third gear drives a slip clutch which in turn drives the take-up
roll.
The Goodwin document teaches a printer (Fig. 4) wherein a
drive roll 65 (downstream of a platen roll 63) is powered so that
the portion of a carrier web W between a peel bar 54 (delaminator
of labels L) and the nip of rolls 65, 66 is under tension. The
drive roll is not driven by a slip clutch.
The labeling machine of Southwell (Fig. 2) relies upon a
slip clutch for a take-up reel 66, while applying a clutch/brake
set (not a slip clutch) for powering the label advancing roller
60 (acting in association with idler 62) downstream of the
stripper 40. Thus, at best, it appears to us that Southwell
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