Appeal No. 2004-1912
Application No. 09/808,584
application by the conveyor as required by claim 1. Brief, page
9.
In response, the examiner argues that Shiraishi teaches a
blade or metering bar positioned against the applicator 5. The
examiner states the control of the amount of coating material
applied to the applicator, and then to the article, results from
the metering bar or blade 7 removing left-over applied coating.
The examiner states that the blade or metering bar 7 prevents
the combination of excess of applied coating material and
freshly applied coating material from building up, to provide
different thickness of coating to each subsequently fed article.
Answer, pages 14-15.
We cannot find in Shiraishi disclosure that indicates that
the metering bar 7 prevents the combination of an excess of
applied coating material and freshly applied coating material
from building up, to provide a different thickness of coating to
each subsequently fed article. Item 7 is an bending blade held
against the rubber roll 5 for bending the rubber roll 5
arcuately, to create a progressively varying gap between sheet 1
of glass and the rubber roll 5, and a conveyor 8 disposed
underneath the rubber roll for feeding the sheet glass 1 in the
direction as indicated by arrow A in Fig. 1, across the rubber
roll 5.
As shown in Fig. 2, the rubber roll 5 is flexed to an
arcuate shape complementary to the bending blade 7 until one
axial end 5a thereof is held in direct contact with the sheet 1
of glass remotely from a longitudinally edge 1a thereof. See
col. 3, lines 18-23. The gap between sheet 1 of glass and the
rubber roll 5 is therefore progressively smaller or tapered in
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