Appeal No. 2005-2210 Παγε 2
Application No. 09/996,974
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a method of and apparatus for transferring a
plurality of rolls from a roll retainer shaft to a roll loading shaft. Claims 1, 4 and 11 are
illustrative of the invention and are reproduced in the appendix to the appellants' brief.
The Applied Prior Art
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Schiltz 1,907,447 May 9, 1933
Van Breen 4,290,734 Sep. 22, 1981
Read 4,557,515 Dec. 10, 1985
Rauh 4,953,805 Sep. 4, 1990
Swain 5,466,114 Nov. 14, 1995
Sano et al. (Sano) 07-034759 Feb. 3, 19951
(Japanese patent application publication)
The Rejections
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellants regarding the below-noted rejections, we make reference to the answer
1 We derive our understanding of this document from the computer-generated translation attached
to the examiner's answer.
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