Appeal No. 2002-0049 Page 4
Application No. 09/317,538
reconstruction to supply deficiencies in the factual basis for the rejection. See In re
Warner, 379 F.2d 1011, 1017, 154 USPQ 173, 178 (CCPA 1967), cert. denied, 389
U.S. 1057 (1968).
With this as background, we analyze the prior art applied by the examiner in the
rejection of the claims on appeal.
Abe's invention relates to a separating device in an automatic stamping machine
(commercially known as cutter-creaser) for separating the cut paper sheet into the
shaped section or sections and a waste section and smoothly removing the waste
section remaining on a lower or female die of the separating device. A first
embodiment of the separating device for separating the shaped sections from the waste
portion of the paper stock is shown in Figures 1-3. A single panel 110 of a suitable
material, namely wood veneer is firmly held in the stationary frame or mounting table
117 of the separation station 126 of the machine. By means of a laser beam, the panel
is cut to form a plurality of openings 114a, b and c through it of the size and shape of
the articles which have been cut in the sheet of paper stock before the sheet is
delivered to the separation station 126. The portions of the panel which are severed
from the panel in the cutting operation become the male stamps or upper dies 113a, b
and c, respectively, which will be used to pass through the openings 114a, b and c,
respectively, in the lower die from which they were removed for the purpose of
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