Appeal No. 2001-2440
Application 09/309,066
OPINION
We reverse the aforementioned rejections. We need to
address only claim 1, which is the sole independent claim.2
McAleavey discloses a method for direct application of a
coating medium (23) onto a moving material web (25) by
1) applying the coating medium onto the moving web with an
applicator device (51), a volume of the coating medium applied
within a predetermined time period being adjustable (col. 7,
lines 20-30), 2) associating a metering element (63) with the
moving material web, the metering element being disposed after
the applicator device relative to a direction of travel of the
moving material web (figure 2), 3) exerting an adjustable
actuating force upon the metering element to thereby meter the
applied coating medium (col. 5, lines 1-15; col. 5, line 30 -
col. 6, line 12), 4) measuring a coating thickness of the coating
medium applied to the moving material web and comparing the
measured thickness to a predetermined desired value (col. 6,
lines 13-62), and 5) causing the measured thickness to equal the
desired thickness by varying the size of the space between the
2 Ueberschär is not relied upon by the examiner for a
teaching which remedies the deficiency in McAleavey and DE ‘183
as to claim 1.
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