Appeal No. 2007-0517
Application No. 10/768,647
12. A process for splicing a first portion of absorbent material to a
second portion of absorbent material to form a longer, continuous
length of absorbent material suitable for uninterrupted sequential
infeed to a processing machine, each of the first and second portions
of absorbent material having a fluid permeability, the process
comprising the steps of:
placing a trailing end of said first portion adjacent a leading end
of said second portion;
aligning said trailing end of said first portion with said leading
end of said second portion; and
attaching a piece of splicing material to said trailing end of the
first portion to define a first spliced region and to said leading end of
the second portion to define a second spliced region, said piece of
splicing material having a fluid permeability at least about 25% as
great as a fluid permeability of said first portion of absorbent material
and at least about 25% as great as a fluid permeability of said second
portion of absorbent material, the fluid permeability of said first
splicing region being at least about 25% as great as the fluid
permeability of said first portion of absorbent material and the fluid
permeability of said second splicing region being at least about 25%
as great as the fluid permeability of said second portion of absorbent
material.
(Appeal Brief, Claims Appendix).
The Examiner has set forth five (5) prior art rejections. The rejections are as
follows:
i. Claims 1, 6-7 and 12 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being
anticipated by Roslund, U.S. Patent 2,428,097.
ii. Claims 2-4 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Roslund ‘097 in view of Platt, U.S. Patent 2,485,761.
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