Appeal No. 2006-2277
Application No. 10/390,459
providing at least one of said two elements with an
embossing medium having a preselected embossing pattern;
providing a non-laminated industrial process fabric; and
compressing said fabric between said two opposed elements
of said device at said preselected level of compression for a
preselected time interval to emboss said industrial process
fabric with said preselected embossing pattern, wherein said
fabric so embossed is usable to make said paper, paper related
products, or non-woven textiles.
The examiner relies upon the following references as
evidence of obviousness:
Albert 4,541,895 Sep. 17, 1985
Klowak 4,849,054 Jul. 18, 1989
Appellants' claimed invention is directed to a method for
embossing an industrial process fabric in an endless loop
comprising passing the fabric between two opposed elements
wherein at least one of the two elements has an embossing
pattern thereon. The fabric is non-laminated and its embossed
pattern is used to make paper, paper related products, etc.
Appealed claims 1-18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Klowak in view of Albert.
Appellants have not presented separate arguments for any
particular claim on appeal. Accordingly, all the appealed
claims stand or fall together with claim 1, and we will limit
our consideration to the examiner's rejection of claim 1.
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