Appeal No. 2004-2315
Application No. 09/348,155
answer (Paper Nos. 6 and 11) for the respective positions of
appellants and the examiner regarding the merits of this
rejection.
Appellants’ Invention
With reference to appellants’ drawing figure, independent
claim 1 is directed to a signature transferring assembly
comprising a first positive control deceleration device (element
7) for transporting some signatures of a stream of signatures to
a first delivery stream (element 9), a gripper cylinder (element
4) “containing a plurality of grippers [elements 12 and 11,
respectively] for gripping a trailing edge and a leading edge of
remaining signatures in the signature stream for transporting the
remaining signatures on said gripper cylinder,” and a second
positive control deceleration device (element 15) for
transporting the remaining signatures released by the gripper
cylinder to a second delivery stream (element 10). The steps of
independent method claim 6 contain similar language.
The Examiner’s Position with respect to Rahe and Carricato
Rahe, the examiner’s primary reference, is directed to a
sheet handling system for dividing a stream of sheets into two
streams of sheets for two delivery stations. As explained in the
abstract (with reference numerals added):
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