Appeal No. 2005-1932 Page 2
Application No. 10/191,311
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a device for cutting soft flexible sheet-like
workpieces (specification, p. 1). A copy of the dependent claims under appeal is set
forth in the appendix to the appellants' brief. Claim 9, the only independent claim on
appeal, reads as follows:
A device for cutting a soft, flexible, sheet-shaped workpiece along a
predetermined cutting path, which comprises
(a) a workpiece support,
(b) a cutter head which can be positioned against the workpiece support and
comprises
(1) at least one cutter, and
(c) a device for holding down the workpiece immobile on the workpiece
support and operating in conjunction with the cutter head, the holding-down
device being located laterally adjacent the at least one cutter and being
adjustable in relation to the at least one cutter perpendicularly to the workpiece
support, and the holding- down device consisting of
(1) at least one pressure roller having a conical roller surface for
engaging the workpiece and a trunnion extending transversely to
the predetermined cutting path and inclined at an angle of less than
90° to the workpiece support.
Claims 9 to 14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
the Appellants' Admitted Prior Art (AAPA) in view of U.S. Patent No. 2,889,623 to Baker.
Claim 15 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
AAPA in view of Baker as applied to claim 9 above, and further in view of U.S. Patent
No. 3,981,708 to Loeffler et al.
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