Appeal No. 2003-0214
Application 09/441,490
1. An apparatus for bulk palletizing a load comprising:
a tier building system;
a pallet station;
a tier sheet station;
a load build area;
a top frame station;
a dunnage supply line; and
a programmable robot, including a single means for
transferring pallets, tiers of bulk product, tier sheets and top
frames to the load build area wherein the programmable, robot
includes a microprocessor and software configured to build a bulk
load by sequentially feeding a pallet, a tier of bulk product, a
tier sheet, a tier of bulk product and a top frame as necessary
to the load building area.
THE EVIDENCE
The items relied on by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Genov et al. (Genov) 6,142,722 Nov. 7, 2000
Corsini 6,238,173 May 29, 2001
The item relied on by the appellants as evidence of non-
obviousness is:
The 37 CFR § 1.132 Declaration of Charles R. Kaufman
made of record as part of Paper No. 8.
THE REJECTION
Claims 1 and 3 through 31 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Corsini in view of Genov.
building area” in claim 22; “the pushers” in claim 25; “the
sequence” in claim 27; “the load build area” in claims 28 and 29;
and “the feeding steps” in claim 30.
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