Appeal No. 2002-1086
Application 09/297,065
the tubular film. The plastic film bag member is
inserted over the filling material container. The
filling material container is lowered together with the
plastic film bag member into the outer packaging
member. The filling material container is emptied into
the plastic film bag member. The material filling
container is moved back to a starting position above
the packaging [Abstract].
As implicitly conceded by the examiner (see page 3 in the
answer), Hansson does not respond to steps ii-v in claim 7
relating to the manipulation of the open end of the sack to form
a closed block end. Although Hansson does not describe how the
open end of the sack disclosed therein is closed, Figures 1
through 3 indicate that such closure is effected so as to achieve
a wedge-shaped end. To cure these deficiencies in Hansson, the
examiner turns to Silver.
Silver discloses a packaging method wherein “the contents
are hermetically sealed in an inner lining of moisture resistant
flexible [plastic] sheeting material . . . wholly contained in a
closed and sealed container of . . . boxboard, and yet the
flexible sheeting initially constituted a layer sealed over the
entire area of the board by means . . . wax” (Abstract). Figure
1 illustrates a packaging blank used in the method with the blank
scored to delineate face, back, side and end panels. Figure 2
shows the laminated board-wax-sheet structure of the blank. The
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