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SECTION I - CLASS DEFINITION

The manufacture of fabrics having one set of threads arranged transversely to another set and interlaced therewith, each thread of one set lying above some and below the remaining threads of the other set. Does not include the diagonal arrangement produced by braiding.

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[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 1]    1MISCELLANEOUS:
 This subclass is indented under the class definition.  Inventions falling within this class, but not more specifically provided for.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 2]    2PILE TUFTING:
 This subclass is indented under the class definition.  Means for knotting or intertwining an extra set of threads with either the warp or weft at the fell of the cloth.

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452,and 453, for analogous methods of color change.

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112, Sewing,   subclasses 80.01+ for an apparatus for inserting and locking pile tufting in a fabric by means of a stitching operation, and subclass 475.23 for a corresponding method.
156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture,   subclasses 72 and 147+ for pile tufting and weaving processes, respectively, when combined with a laminating step.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 3]    3Around warp:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 2.  The tufts are intertwined with the warp.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 4]    4Oriental knot:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 3.  The tuft passes around two threads, at least one end projecting up between them.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 5]    5Warp traversing:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 4.  The warp threads are given a lateral movement during the operation.

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48,and indented subclasses, for other warp traversing.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 6]    6Portable supply:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 4.  The tuft-yarn packages are moved bodily to bring about tuft change.

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7,
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 7]    7Portable supply:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 2.  The tuft-yarn packages are moved bodily to bring about tuft change.

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332,for analogous mechanisms that support long pattern chains.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 8]    8Including tuft presenting:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 7.  Includes means for supplying the knotting or intertwining apparatus with yarn.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 9]    9Tuft presenting:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 8.  Limited to the means for supplying the knotting or intertwining apparatus with yarn.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 10]    10Tube frames:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 9.  Limited to a single unit for supplying the tuft yarn.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 11]    11SPECIAL-TYPE LOOMS:
 This subclass is indented under the class definition.  Looms which depart from what may be regarded as a standard type. A standard loom is one in which the warp passes horizontally through the same and in which the warp and weft manipulating mechanisms are not peculiarly adapted to cooperate with each other, but either one might be used with various types of the other. Hand looms are placed in this group.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 14]    14Open back:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 457.  The warp spools or warp ends are moved bodily to open the shed instead of moving a portion of the threads between the warp spool or warp ends and the fell of the cloth.

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17,for similar sheds that are noncircular.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 15]    15Contacting shuttle and shed control:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 457.  The undulatory closing of the shed behind the shuttle propels the shuttle or else the forward movement of the pointed shuttle forces the shed to open.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 16]    16Radial heddle movement:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 457.  The warp heddles move in a plane transverse to the tube being woven.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 17]    17Open-back shed:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 11.  Looms having sheds formed by moving the warp spools or ends bodily instead of moving a portion of the threads between the warp spools or warp ends and the fell of the cloth.

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14,for similar sheds in a circular loom.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 17.5]    17.5Supplemental open-back shed:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 11.  The shed is open at the back on certain picks, thereby permitting weft inserting means to project into the shed from the rear and travel across the same, in addition to regular closed-back shed weaving.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 18]    18Vertical shed:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 11.  The harnesses are moved in horizontal planes.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 19]    19Seed-corn stringers:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 18.  Ears of corn constitute the weft.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 20]    20Multiple-shed:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 11.  The warp bank is split into three or more groups, so formed into two or more sheds, which may converge to a common fell to form a single fabric or to more than one fell to form a plurality of fabrics.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 21]    21Pile:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 20.  Used for weaving fabric having loops or ends standing out from the surface.

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37,and indented subclasses, for single- shed pile.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 22]    22Narrow ware:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 20.  The shuttle is longer than the width of the warp and is always connected with an actuating means which does not enter the shed.

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135,for single-shed looms of this type.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 23]    23Rack and pinion shuttle motions:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 22.  The shuttle is driven through pinions acting on a rack attached to the shuttle.

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136,and 137, for single-shed rack and pinion shuttle motions.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 24]    24Irregular warp feed:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 11.  The warp is fed through the loom at a rate that varies with different picks to produce special effects in the fabric.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 25]    25Terry:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 24.  Two warp supplies are employed, a few picks of weft are deposited a short distance from the fell of the cloth, these picks are then forced up to the fell with the warp supplies under different tension, whereby the weft slides over one of the warps and the other warp is forced up in loops.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 26]    26Beat-ups:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 25.  Limited to means for forcing the weft up to the fell of the cloth.

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188,and the subclasses indented thereunder, especially subclass 190.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 27]    27Separate reed:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 26.  The peculiar terry effect is produced by a special motion of the reed rather than the entire lay.

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189,and 191, for similar reeds not used in terry.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 28]    28Pushed shed pocket:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 11.  Heddle eyes are not employed, but members merely contact with the warp strands and push them out of line. Usually operates on stiff resilient material.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 29]    29Hand looms:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 11.  Looms that differ from the conventional power loom by being hand driven, usually without any hand crank.
(1) Note. Some are almost entirely automatic, and some are mere fragments of looms in which nearly all the operations are accomplished manually.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 30]    30Pushed harness:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 29.  The harnesses are directly pushed by rigid members.

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57,and 58.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 31]    31Cam shedding:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 30.  A cam is used to actuate the push members.

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32,and 58.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 32]    32Cam shedding:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 29.  The harnesses are actuated by cams.

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31,and 79.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 33]    33Manual shedding:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 29.  The shedding mechanism is propelled directly by hand or foot and is not driven by mechanical connection to some other part of the loom.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 33.5]    33.5Darning:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 33.  Peculiarly adapted for weaving over a hole in a fabric.

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223, Apparel Apparatus,   subclass 100 for related devices which do not have means for controlling interlacing of threads in definite order.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 34]    34Warp frames:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 29.  Frames, usually rectangular for holding warp strands and involving some means peculiar to weaving.

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28, Textiles: Manufacturing,   subclasses 151+ for thread frames that do no more than hold an array of threads.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 35]    35WARP MANIPULATION:
 This subclass is indented under the class definition.  Supplying tensioning, shedding, in some instances traversing, or otherwise handling the warp threads until they reach the fell of the cloth.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 36]    36Fluid treatment:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 35.  Means for applying a fluid to the warp threads while in the loom.

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118, Coating Apparatus,   appropriate subclasses for coating apparatus, per se, and see the Class 118 class definition, Lines With Other Classes, Coating Combined With Other Operations, for the line between Class 118 and Class 139.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 37]    37Pile:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 35.  Means for manipulating the warp threads so that they will stand out from the surface of the fabric in the form of loops or ends.

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2,and indented subclasses for pile that is not formed from warp or weft threads.
116.5,and 116.6, for pile produced from weft threads, and 21.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 38]    38Loop hook:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 37.  Hooks near the fell of the cloth by which part of the warp threads are caused to stand out until the beat-up occurs.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 39]    39Transverse wire:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 37.  Wires for causing the warp threads to stand out are woven in as wefts, but only allowed to remain in the fabric temporarily.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 40]    40Wire control:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 39.  Limited to means for moving and guiding the wires.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 41]    41Including end motions:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 40.  Mechanism which thrusts the wires end-wise into the shed and pulls the wires out of the woven fabric, with means for otherwise manipulating the wires.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 42]    42End motions:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 41.  Limited to the means for thrusting the wires into the shed and pulling them out.

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141,431, 437, 440, and 443, for similar actuating mechanism that propels needles, tweezer sticks, and shuttle push rods.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 43]    43Separate cutting mechanism:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 39.  Any cutting arrangement other than a knife on the end of the pile wire for cutting the loops.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 44]    44Pile wires:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 39.  Limited to the structure of the wires.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 45]    45Oiling:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 39.  Means for placing oil on the wires.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 46]    46Longitudinal wire, traversing:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 37.  The pile loops are formed by cross weaving or traversing the threads over wires which lie parallel to the warp threads, which wires do not participate in the take-up advancement and end a few picks beyond the fell of the cloth. The wires may or may not have a knife at the end to cut the loops.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 47]    47Anchored release end:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 46.  That type of longitudinal wire in which the forward end of the wire is fast to the frame of the loom.
(1) Note. This type necessarily carries cutting knives, otherwise the loops could not pass the anchorage.

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116.6,for similar devices for weft pile.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 48]    48Traversing:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 35.  Means for causing warp threads to be moved transversely.

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5,
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 49]    49Lappet:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 48.  Means for traversing warps comprising needle-eye heddles placed in front of the reed.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 50]    50Leno or gauze:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 48.  Special harness mechanism causes parts of the warp threads to cross others and hold them in that position until the pick has been laid.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 51]    51Doup heddle:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 50.  Shedding mechanism having a loop running through a special heddle eye and around the thread to be crossed, said loop being so placed as to pull the thread sidewise past some other warp threads.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 52]    52Heddles:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 51.  Limited to the loop and eye as an element.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 53]    53Needle-eye heddle:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 50.  The heddle eyes are placed in the ends of rigid rods, the same resembling sewing-machine needles. After these needles are withdrawn from the shed and before reinsertion they are shogged sidewise.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 54]    54Selvage:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 48.  Cross weaving placed only at the edge of the fabric for selvage purposes or in the body of the fabric where it is intended to slit the same.

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55.1,455 and 456, for independent harness actuating selvage warps.
117,for special treatment of weft selvages, and 430+.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 55.1]    55.1Shedding:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 35.  Apparatus which separates the warp threads into two layers with a weft receiving space therebetween and which periodically moves warp threads from one layer to the other.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 56]    56Disconnecting mechanism:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 55.1.  Means to interrupt the driving connection between the shedding mechanism and other moving loom parts.

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156,and 328, for clutches and disconnecting means.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 57]    57Pushed harness:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 55.1.  The harnesses are directly pushed by rigid members.

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30,
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 58]    58Double-acting cam:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 57.  Cams are employed for moving the rigid members in both directions.

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31,and 81.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 59]    59Jacquard:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 55.1.  Peculiarly adapted for independent control of individual threads. There are laterally-movable members harnessed to the threads adapted to engage a vibrating actuator and a bank of needles each connected to one of the laterally-movable members and with their ends in position to be engaged by a pattern which may be reciprocated to be pressed against them.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 60]    60Knotted cord:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 59.  The actuator is a trap board having holes and slits therein, the laterally-movable members being knotted cords and the pattern exercising its control to cause the knots to catch in the slits.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 61]    61Multiple cylinder:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 59.  Two or more pattern cylinders control a single set of hooks, as each hook has feelers which extend to the several cylinders.

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322,for details of the cylinders and feelers alone.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 62]    62Group control:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 59.  An auxiliary pattern controls entire groups or rows of hooks independent of or in opposition to the indications of the main pattern.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 63]    63Locked open shed:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 59.  A jacquard so arranged that extra rests or knife-edges will keep any hooks from lowering between two successive picks.

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72,
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 64]    64Mid closing:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 59.  The threads move in opposite directions from a central point when the shed is split open.

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69,
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 65]    65Double lift:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 59.  Each harness cord is attached to two hooks, the hooks of a given pair being actuated by oppositely-moving griff bars.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 66]    66Dobby:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 55.1.  A pattern-controlled shedding motion for actuating heddle frames.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 67]    67Vibrating griff:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 66.  The power is supplied by a constantly- reciprocating knife bar, and the pattern determines which one of a number of hooks shall be caught on the bar.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 68]    68Jacquard pattern:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 67.  Uses pattern cards that require to be brought up to the feelers with a right-line motion.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 69]    69Mid closing:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 67.  The threads move in opposite directions from a central point when the shed is split open.

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64,
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 70]    70Curved motion:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 69.  The griff bars move in an arc of a circle.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 71]    71Double lift:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 67.  Two griffs are constantly reciprocating in opposite directions.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 72]    72Locked open shed:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 71.  Latches keep the heddles in open position when change is not desired.

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63,
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 73]    73Irreversible transmission:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 72.  Motion is readily transmitted from the griff bars to the heddle frames, but not in the opposite direction.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 74]    74Evener direct:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 71.  A two-arm lever is attached directly to two hooks and so arranged that when the hooks are reciprocated in opposite directions by the griff bars the harness attached to its middle point will remain stationary.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 75]    75Harness levelers:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 67.  A means for bringing all the harness to the same level when the loom is stopped, so that repairs to the warp threads can be made.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 76]    76Rotating actuator:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 66.  The actuator to which the harness-moving members are connected at the call of the pattern rotates.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 77]    77Vibrator gear:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 76.  The actuators are toothed drums and the harnesses are moved by gears which are moved edgewise by the pattern for engagement with the toothed drums.

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180,
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 78]    78Pattern direct:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 55.1.  The pattern is strong enough to actuate the harness by means contacting directly with the pattern.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 79]    79Cam:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 55.1.  The harnesses are actuated by cams.

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32,for similar shedding in a hand loom.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 80]    80With varying means:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 79.  There is means to control the arrangement of the cams either automatically or by hand.

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120,156 and 320, for other axial-shift cams.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 81]    81Double acting:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 79.  The harness is positively moved both ways.

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58,
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 82]    82Harnessing:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 55.1.  Limited to connections between the shedding motions and the warp threads.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 83]    83Power to both sides:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 82.  Two trains of transmission extend from the shedding motion to both the tops and bottoms of the harness frames.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 84]    84Power to top:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 82.  A single train of transmission extends from the shedding motion to the top only of the harness frame.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 85]    85Jacquard:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 84.  The transmission from the jacquard motion to the heddle eyes.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 86]    86Comber boards:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 85.  The guides which position the harness cords over the proper warp threads.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 87]    87Interharness connections:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 82.  Means for transmitting motion from one harness frame to another independent of the shedding motion.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 88]    88Strap connections:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 82.  Means for connecting the transmission straps to the harness frames.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 89]    89Retractors:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 82.  Springs or their equivalent to pull heddles in the reverse direction to that imparted by the shedding motion.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 90]    90Lingoes:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 89.  Weights used to pull down individual heddle eyes.
  
[List of Patents for class 139 subclass 91]    91Harnesses:
 This subclass is indented under subclass 82.  Groups of heddles supported from bars in order to move in unison.
  
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