Appeal No. 2002-0956
Application 09/182,366
material or of a sheet or web of steel” (column 3, lines 56 and
57).
As conceded by the examiner (see page 4 in the answer), the
Spengler apparatus does not respond to the limitations in
appealed claim 1 requiring (1) a transport belt having
“integrated cut rubber portions” and (2) “a cam for contacting
cut signatures emerging from the cutting region, the cam being
pivotably mounted to the knife cylinder.” Spengler’s transport
belt (counter pressure belt 17) does not have such cut rubber
portions and Spengler’s apparatus does not include such a cam.
The examiner’s reliance on Mattison, the British reference and
the German reference to cure these shortcomings is not well
founded.
Mattison discloses an endless conveyor for a woodworking
machine such as a sander. The conveyor consists of a pair of
heavy endless chains composed of interconnected links 10 and
cross bars 12, and a plurality of surface pads 13 removably
secured to the chains. Each pad includes a heavy metal base 14
and a resilient rubber surface 15. The pads, which can be
readily replaced if damaged, are arranged on the chains to form a
tread-like pattern which minimizes undesirable lateral and
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