Appeal 2006-2948
Application 10/194,872
filing said at least one property under at least one of a pre-settable felt
name and a pre-settable screen name in a historical database;
recording graphically said at least one property by way of at least one
of an evaluation unit and a control unit relative to a time of a change for the
at least one of a felt and a screen thereby providing a second property
development over time;
comparing said second property development over time with said first
property development over time;
anticipating a worsening condition of the dewatering of the fiber web;
at least one of signaling and triggering at least one counter measure if
said second property development over time one of differs by a pre-settable
measure from said first property development over time and lies outside a
pre-settable range; and
preventing said worsening condition with said at least one counter
measure.
The Examiner relies upon the following reference in the rejection of
the appealed claims:
Bloice GB 2,061,341 A May 13, 1981
Appellants' claimed invention is directed to a method of monitoring
the state of a felt or screen that dewaters a fibrous web. The method entails
filing a desirable property of the felt or screen into a historical database,
graphically recording this property by utilizing an evaluation unit and
control unit as the property changes over time of the process, comparing a
measured value of the property to the preselected value in the historical
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