Appeal No. 2006-1343 6
Application No. 10/121,530
(1) and which includes pivotable grippers (16, 17) configured to
grip downwardly extending ends of printed products (3) and release
them at the bottom of the drum in an approximately horizontal
position. The examiner then urges that it would have been obvious
to one of ordinary skill in the art “to alter the transfer device
as taught by Mack to include the conveyor drum, as taught by
Müller, at the upstream end of the transfer path, if one so desired
to ensure that a continuous conveying flow be realized and that the
printed products are subjected to a gentle processing” (answer,
page 5).
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