Appeal No. 2002-1878
Application No. 09/246,257
section on an angle with the vertical section of on the order of
135/. The conveying air is generated by a blower mounted
outside the duct and is directed by a baffle which directs the
air upwardly longitudinally along the vertical duct.
The claimed subject matter may be further understood with
reference to the appealed claims appended to appellant's brief.
The references of record relied upon by the examiner as
evidence of obviousness are:
Wiseman et al. (Wiseman) 4,744,702 May 17, 1988
Long et al. (Long) 5,209,387 May 11, 1993
AirFil brochure "The Flexible approach to air-filled packaging"
THE REJECTION
Claims 1 through 5 and 7 through 19 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over the AirFil brochure in view
of Long and Wiseman. AirFil discloses an apparatus and method
for making air pillow packing material and mechanically conveying
it to a hopper storage bin. Long discloses that it is known in
the art to make use of duct work and a source of pressurized gas
to convey a web of material 46. Long is further relied on to
show baffles. Wiseman discloses a pneumatic conveyor which can
move light objects and involves few moving parts. According to
the examiner, it would have been obvious to have modified the
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