Appeal No. 2002-1023 Page 5
Application No. 09/387,399
speeds of the rollers, but to vary their diameters (translation, page 7). The reference
furthermore does not suggest that there be a control member located outside the
housing for enabling the operator to make adjustments. Thus, Baumuller fails to
disclose or teach elements (2) and (3) of the claims as set forth above.
Beierlorzer is directed to a machine for making packing material by resiliently
folding and crimping shredded strips of moistened paper material into an interlocking,
bulk packaging material (Abstract). Bulking is accomplished by narrowing the profile of
the discharge chute of the machine (column 14, line 67) and by placing an adjustable
gate in the discharge chute (column 15, lines 21-23); it is not accomplished by varying
the ratio of the speeds of upstream and downstream feeding components. The
Beierlorzer machine also comprises a moistening system 20, and it is to this that the
examiner refers. The moistening system causes the paper material to be wetted prior
to directing it to a layering means 22 for longitudinally cutting and layering it and
sending it through the discharge chute (column 9, line 57 et seq.). The moistening
system includes a wetting roller 62 which wets the sheet material prior to bulking. With
reference to Figure 3, it is explained that the rate of rotation of the wetting roller 62 can
be varied by increasing or decreasing the speed of driving motor 60 such that “[t]he
increase in speed of the motor 64 would result in faster rotation of the wetting roller 62
to transfer more water to the sheet paper 14" passing over roller 62 (column 10, line 31
et seq.). The speed of the wetting roller alters the amount of liquid applied to the web
material moving over the wetting roller, but such adjustment does not alter the speed of
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