Appeal No. 2003-1147
Application No. 09/598,580
Claims 1 and 11 are representative of the subject matter on
appeal and are produced below:
1. A method of controlling the supply of ink in a printing
machine wherein the ink is differently guided zonally on an ink-
fountain roller transversely to the printing direction, and is
transferred by a vibrator roller to a distributor roller, which
comprises metering the ink zonally for counteracting ink transfer
disturbances caused by a stroke movement of the distributor
roller, so as to minimize the disturbances automatically to at
least an effective extent.
11. A method of controlling the supply of ink in a printing
machine, which comprises:
metering zonally differentiated ink on an ink-fountain roller
transversely to a printing direction;
transferring the ink by a vibrator roller to a distributor
roller; and
performing the step of zonally metering the ink to counteract ink
transfer disturbances caused by a stroke movement of the
distributor roller.
The reference relied upon by the examiner is:
Thünker et al. (Thünker) 5,701,817 Dec. 30, 1997
GROUND OF REJECTION
Claims 1-3 and 11-14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b)
as anticipated by Thünker.
We affirm.
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