Appeal No. 2005-0812
Application No. 09/792,609
Figure 2. The printing assembly 60 illustrated therein comprises
a printing cylinder 10, a blanket cylinder 66, an inking system
62, a dampening system 64, and what reasonably might be called an
image setting device composed of a scraper 44, a hydrophilic
powder hopper 30, an oleophilic material delivery drum 35 and a
radiant fusing heater 38. Figure 2 shows (1) that the printing
and blanket cylinders are arranged one above another on one side
of a web of printing material 68 and have respective axes which
lie in a common plane inclined at an obtuse angle to the plane of
the web, and (2) that the image setting device (scraper 44,
hopper 30, drum 35 and heater 38) is arranged adjacent to the
printing cylinder and wholly within the obtuse angle.
As conceded by the examiner (see page 8 in the answer),
Fadner’s printing assembly 60, and specifically its printing and
blanket cylinders, do not respond to the limitation in claim 1
requiring at least one of the printing unit cylinders which are
arranged one above another with respective axes lying in a common
plane inclined at an obtuse angle to the plane of the web to lie
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