Appeal No. 2005-0722
Application No. 09/749,361
September 24, 2004) for the respective positions of the appellant
and the examiner regarding the merits of this rejection.1
DISCUSSION
Mylaeus discloses an apparatus for singling sheets from a
stack 10 disposed on a supporting plate 22. The apparatus
includes a feed device comprising back and front cam wheels 30
and 40 associated with respective driving wheels 31 and 41 and
friction belts 33 and 45 for feeding the bottom sheet 11 in the
stack in a first transport direction T, an aligning device
comprising cam wheels 50 associated with respective driving
wheels 51 and friction belts 55 for feeding the bottom sheet in a
second alignment direction A orthogonal to the first direction
toward a base plate 20, a single cam wheel drive 60 for
continuously driving the cam wheels 30, 40 and 50, and a device
for picking the bottom sheet from the stack when it is properly
aligned against the base plate. Axles 32, 42 and 52 located
1 The record contains a copy of U.S. Patent No. 6,267,372 to
Mylaeus et al. which is the U.S. equivalent of the Mylaeus
international application. As the appellant (see page 2 in the
main brief) and the examiner (see page 3 in the answer) have
relied on the U.S. patent as an English language translation of
the international application, we shall do the same. Hence, all
references in this decision to specific portions of the Mylaeus
disclosure will be to the U.S. patent which, it should be noted,
is itself prior art with respect to the appellant’s invention
under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e).
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