Appeal No. 2005-1004 2
Application No. 09/656,333
movement of said rollers and driven, together with said rollers,
by said drive unit;
said first and second grippers having respective spring
elements, said spring elements being stressed in one of said
phases of the cyclic movement and relieved of stress in another
of said phases of the cyclic movement, a respective one of said
phases having a first one of said spring elements stressed being
synchronized with a respective one of said phases having a second
one of said spring elements relieved of stress;
said second sheet transport cylinder having a position
defined for accepting a sheet to be printed from the first sheet
transport cylinder and a position defined for surrendering the
printed sheet and, on a path from said surrender position to said
acceptance position, said second sheet gripper being actuatable
for executing one of a movement stressing said spring element
assigned thereto and a movement relieving the stress, while said
first sheet gripper being actuatable for executing one of a
closing movement relieving the stress on said spring element
assigned thereto and a closing movement stressing said spring
element.
THE PRIOR ART
The references relied on by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
Munker 5,271,323 Dec. 21, 1993
Schaede 5,839,366 Nov. 24, 1998
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 7 and 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second
paragraph, as failing to particularly point out and distinctly
claim the subject matter the appellant regards as the invention.
Claims 1, 2, 8 and 10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as being anticipated by Schaede.
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