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          Appeal No. 2005-2500                                                              
          Application No. 09/893,399                                                        

                the rack according to a predetermined order, and rails                      
                arranged to guide a tray drawing operation of the tray                      
                drawer device;                                                              
                     a laminator for laminating the plurality of                            
                ceramic green sheets supplied by the sheet supplier;                        
                     a conveyor device for picking up a single ceramic                      
                green sheet from a drawn tray and conveying the single                      
                ceramic green sheet to the laminator;                                       
                     a processor unit adapted to receive data                               
                concerning at least a type, an order in lamination, and                     
                a quantity of ceramic green sheets necessary for a                          
                laminate for a desired electronic monolithic component;                     
                     the sheet supplier including a drive for driving                       
                the rack to be raised and lowered in a vertical                             
                direction; and                                                              
                     the tray drawer device being arranged to draw a                        
                particular tray from the rack when, as a result of the                      
                rack being at least one of raised and lowered by the                        
                drive, the particular tray is positioned at a                               
                predetermined height.                                                       
                                                                                           
                                   RIOR ART REFERENCES                                      
                The prior art references relied upon by the examiner in                     
          support of the Section 103 rejection before us are:                               
          Baccini                          6,109,323            Aug. 29, 2000               
          Yoshimura                        Hei 4-239604         Aug. 27, 1992               
          (Published Japanese patent application)                                           
          Takane et al. (Takane)           Hei 10-321457        Dec. 04, 1998               
          (Published Japanese patent application)                                           
                                                                                           
                                        REJECTION                                           
                Claims 1, 3, and 5 through 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.                 
          § 103(a) as unpatentable over the combined disclosures of                         
          Yoshimura, Takane and Baccini.                                                    

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