Appeal No. 2004-2176
Application No. 09/996,624
a retracted position at which said heater unit is separated from
said chute; and
an air cylinder for controlling compressive force with which
said heater unit at said sealing position compresses said film
against said chute by having air of a specified pressure supplied
thereto.
3. The packaging machine of claim 1 wherein said heater driving
means includes another air cylinder.
The examiner relies upon the following references as evidence
of unpatentability:
Husted 4,930,403 June 5, 1990
Fukuda 5,125,217 June 30, 1992
Claims 1, 4, and 5 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §102(b) as
being anticipated by Fukuda.
Claims 1, 2, 4, 5, 19, and 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Fukuda in view of Husted.
Claims 3 and 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §103 as being
unpatentable over Fukuda.
OPINION
I. The rejection of claims 1, 4 and 5 under 35 U.S.C. §102(b) as
being anticipated by Fukuda
We consider claim 1 in this rejection.
We refer to page 3 of the answer regarding the examiner’s
position in this rejection.
Beginning on page 5 of the brief, the single disputed issue
presented by appellants is whether the air cylinder of Fukuda controls
the compressive force with which the heater unit at the sealing
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