Appeal No. 2002-0358
Application No. 09/076,356
DISCUSSION
Kannankeril, the examiner’s primary reference, discloses
“a dispensing apparatus adapted for serially dispensing
plastic bags from wound rolls” (column 1, lines 12 and 13).
As described by Kannankeril with reference to Figures 1 and 2,
[t]he apparatus 10 includes a container, generally
indicated at 12 and a mounting bracket, generally
indicated at 22.
The container 12 has a unitary construction
formed from a pair of opposed sides 14, a pair of
flanges 16 extending generally transverse to the
sides, a bottom 18 positioned below the sides,
providing support therefor and a separating means or
tongue 20 extending outwardly from the bottom 18.
The container 12 is adapted to receive a wound roll
of plastic bags AA [column 4, lines 31 through 40].
The bracket 22 allows the container 12 to be mounted in
the same desired orientation in a plurality of different
environments (see Figures 6 through 11). Of this orientation,
Kannankeril teaches that
the desired orientation of the container 12 is such
that the wound roll, regardless of its size . . . is
biased against the flanges 16 and the bottom 18.
Preferably, the container 12 is oriented
approximately 45E form horizontal. In this
orientation, the juncture of the bottom 16 and the
opposed sides 14, which are joined at an angle
approaching 90E, form the lower most point of the
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