Appeal No. 2004-1831
Application No. 09/338,095
of embodiments. With reference to the appellants’ independent
claims and the application drawing, the claim 3 embodiment is
depicted in Figure 3, the claim 5 and claim 22 embodiment is
depicted in Figures 4-5, the claim 7 embodiment is depicted in
Figures 6-8 and the claim 19 embodiment is depicted in Figure 9.
This appealed subject matter is adequately illustrated by
representative independent claims 3, 19 and 22 which read as
follows:
3. A roll of masking material having an axis, first and
second axially spaced ends, and a predetermined width between
said spaced ends, said roll of masking material comprising a
coiled elongate sheet, said sheet having opposite first and
second elongate edges, having longitudinal folds defining, with
said elongate edges, edges of longitudinally extending portions
of said sheet, said longitudinally extending portions of said
sheet including pleated portions of said sheet each having
opposite major surfaces generally parallel with said axis, said
pleated portions being superimposed major surfaces to major
surfaces to form a laminate with outermost ones of said
superimposed pleated portions defining the opposite outer
surfaces of said laminate, and at least some of the edges of said
superimposed pleated portions being positioned generally radially
aligned at said first end of said roll, said longitudinally
extending portions of said sheet further including a first radial
portion extending radially of said roll along said radially
aligned edges at said first end of said roll from the edge of one
of the outermost pleated portions at said first end of said roll
and a first distal portion having said first elongate edge of
said sheet and extending for a distance less than said
predetermined width along the outer surface of the laminate
toward the second end of the roll from the edge of said first
radial portion opposite the outer most pleated portion to which
the first radial portion is attached; said one of the outer most
pleated portions to which the first radial portion is attached
being disposed radially outwardly of the roll from the other one
of said outermost pleated portions in the laminate.
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