Appeal 2006-1042
Application 10/208,131
imbricated layers, the profiled sections 7 of the
first layer, called the lower layer, having their web
directed downward, alternating with the profiled
sections 8 of the second layer, called the upper
layer, which have their web directed upward (see
more particularly Figure 8).
Brackets 10 fixed on a trestle 11 receive, in
vertical control slots, threaded rods 12 which pass
through bores formed opposite each other in the
webs of the profiled sections 7 and 8. By virtue of
these brackets and these rods, it is possible to
adjust the position of the profiled sections 7 and 8,
by means of nuts screwed onto said rods on each
side of the webs of these profiled sections, both in
the vertical direction and in the horizontal
direction [Trans. pp. 2-3].
Barut’s machine also includes “[a]n L-shaped corner piece 30 [which] is
fixed on the rods 12 on each side of the track of T-shaped profiled sections
for guiding the sheet 4” (Fig. 4; p. 4).
Appellants and the Examiner have identified three key issues in this
appeal:
(1) pertaining to claim 1, whether Barut discloses a fold forming
apparatus comprising “a plurality of skis mounted on the frame for pivoting
adjustment about an axis extending laterally of the longitudinal direction of
movement of the web” (Br. 5; Answer 7);
(2) pertaining to claim 9 (and claim 18), whether Barut discloses “a
material guide for engaging the web of foldable material to form the material
in cooperation with one of the skis to produce one of the folds” (Br. 9;
Answer 8); and
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