Appeal No. 2001-0394
Application 09/012,508
coating the second side of the web at a coating point
with the coating medium by using at least one applicator opposing
said at least one rotatable backing roll and configured for at
least one of applying the coating medium onto the second side of
the web and treating the second side of the web the second side
of the web [sic], said coating point opposing said at least one
backing roll; and
removing a first air boundary layer entrained by at
least one of said at least one rotatable backing roll and the
first side of the web, said removing step being performed at at
[sic] least one removal point by at least one first air boundary
stripper disposed and directed between said at least one
rotatable backing roll and the first side of the web within said
entrance gore, before said coating point.
17. The method of claim 9, comprising the further step
of eliminating a second air boundary layer entrained by the
second side of the web, said eliminating step occurring at an
eliminating point disposed before said coating point relative to
said direction of rotation of said at least one rotatable backing
roll.
The references relied upon by the examiner are:
Heinzmann 4,893,741 Jan. 16, 1990
Beisswanger 5,370,735 Dec. 6, 1994
GROUND OF REJECTION
Claims 1-3, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 17 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as obvious over Beisswanger in view of Heinzmann.
We reverse.
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