Appeal No. 2005-1348
Application No. 09/534,466
to a printing mode from a white web mode. Then, when a new roll
of paper is to be installed, at the end of a printing job, the
operator presses the webbing (37) and reverse (38) buttons to
generate a signal indicating a change to a white web mode from a
printing mode, lowering the tension to prepare the web for
printing.
In view of this rather detailed and reasonable explanation,
appellants point to no error in the examiner’s rationale;
appellants do not dispute any of the examiner’s comments.
Instead, appellants merely state, with no support, that “there is
absolutely no teaching or disclosure in Huth of increasing or
decreasing an infeed tension in response to a signal indicating a
change from a printing mode to a white web mode” (principal
brief-page 7) and that there is “absolutely no indication or
teaching that the tension is any different whether the web is
printing or in a white web mode. Huth is merely similar to the
prior art Fig. 1 described in the present invention” (reply
brief-page 3). Yet, appellants offer no support for this
allegation, especially unconvincing in light of Huth’s
disclosure, at column 3, lines 26-31, that slack (lesser tension)
is removed and that the press is “subsequently run at a speed
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