Appeal No. 2002-2230
Application 09/295,547
the main brief). Consistent with this grouping, and pursuant to
37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7), we shall decide the appeal on the basis of
representative claim 1 alone, with claims 2 through 10, 12
through 21 and 32 standing or falling with claim 1.
II. The merits
Genoud, the examiner’s primary reference, discloses an
apparatus for folding a rear flap 1, 6, on a box blank 2, 9,
moving in a direction 3, 10, through the apparatus (see Figures 1
and 2). As best shown in Figures 5 through 8, the apparatus
includes a cradle 38, a stepping motor 64 for moving the cradle
in a path perpendicular to the path of the blank, a rotatable
folder 11 comprising two hook members 13, 14 disposed on a drive
shaft 12 mounted on the cradle, a stepping motor 24 for adjusting
the position of the hook members along the length of the drive
shaft, a drive motor 47 for rotating the drive shaft and the hook
members in accordance with predetermined motion curves to engage
the rear flap at hitting point A (see column 3, line 10, through
column 4, line 8), a pulse generator 49 for measuring the angular
position of the drive shaft, a photoelectric cell 67 for
detecting the rear edge of the blank, and a pulse generator 69
and pulse converter 71 which are described by Genoud as follows:
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