Appeal No. 2003-1514 Page 7
Application No. 09/180,038
example, a black field may indicate that the associated cutting unit or deflector is to be
actuated, while a white field may indicate that the associated cutting unit or deflector is
not to be actuated. These stripes or fields are sampled or picked up by a sensor 5
during transport of the web through the apparatus and corresponding signals are
transmitted to the control unit CU to either actuate or not actuate the cutting units and
deflectors. Thus, in essence, the codes 20 provide all the commands necessary to
actuate the cutting units and deflectors to cut the desired pattern of rectangular
segments.
In response to appellants’ argument that Bay fails to disclose paper sheet side
edge detecting means as recited in claims 13 and 15 (brief, pages 11-12), the examiner
contends that signals from the sensed bar code 20 indicate the position of the edges to
be cut from the web and that, thus, the positional relationship between the two side
edges of the paper to be cut are detected (answer, pages 13-14). The examiner’s
position that Bay’s sensing of the codes 20 responds to the paper sheet side edge
detecting means recited in claims 11, 13 and 15 is unsound. While the signals
transmitted from reading the codes 20 are used to control the cutting units and
deflectors to make cuts and to deflect scrap, thereby forming the edges of the
segments to be cut in the web, the reading of codes 20 in no way detects the position of
the side edges of the paper sheet or web which is to be cut.
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