Appeal No. 2002-1067
Application No. 09/358,666
Turning to claims 17, 18, 22, 23, 25 and 26, each of these
claims call for a “substantially cylindrical” roller and further
require, in one form or another, that the substantially
cylindrical roller is at least 2 inches long. For the reasons
explained above, we do not consider that the work rolls 30, 31 of
Wegner may properly be viewed as being “substantially
cylindrical.” Moreover, the examiner does not take the position,
and it is not apparent to us, that it would have been obvious to
one of ordinary skill in the art to modify the intentionally
beveled or tapered work rolls of Wegner to provide them with
substantially cylindrical exterior surfaces. On this basis
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