This class is the generic class for machines and machine methods
of making, repairing, and maintaining in proper condition articles
of apparel and analogous articles except as provided for in other
classes.
It also includes certain devices and methods of plaiting, folding,
turning, etc., applied to table linen, bed linen, curtains, bags
and like articles not apparel, because of their similarity to apparel-treating
devices.
The group of trimming making also includes devices and methods
of making trimmings not necessarily used with garments but which
may be so used and are analogous to those which are so used as e.g.,
making tassels for curtains are here since their making is like
that of muff or garment tassels.
SECTION II - LINES WITH OTHER CLASSES AND WITHIN THIS CLASS
For apparel articles and article processes, see Class 2, Apparel,
which is the broad class for articles of apparel and article processes
not coming under this class or the classes noted below.
For dyeing and fluid treatment of fabrics see Class 8, Bleaching
and Dyeing; Fluid Treatment and Chemical Modification of Textiles
and Fibers, for apparatus for dyeing and fluid treatment of textiles
and fabrics, see Class 68, Textiles: Fluid Treating Apparatus.
For making shoes, see Class 12, Boot and Shoe Making.
For brushing and general cleaning, see Class 15, Brushing,
Scrubbing, and General Cleaning.
For the Treatment, finishing, and ornamentation of cloth,
see Class 26, Textiles: Cloth Finishing.
See Class 34, Drying and Gas or Vapor Contact With Solids,
for garment drying apparatus and processes of general utility, not
claiming features of a form to fit or hold a garment, or process
steps correspondingly limited. The mere naming of the garment in
a process, or the recitation of a garment form generally or for
a particular garment (e.g., by reciting forms, flat forms, garment
forms, boards, stocking forms, etc.) will not exclude the case from
Class 34.
For boots and shoes, see Class 36, Boots, Shoes, and Leggings.
For the manufacture of garments by knitting, weaving or sewing,
see Class 66, Textiles: Knitting; Class 139, Textiles: Weaving;
and Class 112, Sewing, respectively.
For washing garments and for dry cleaning thereof, see Class
68, Textiles: Fluid Treating Apparatus. For ironing and smoothing
garments, see Class 38, Textiles: Ironing or Smoothing.
For coating or impregnating, per se, search Class 427, Coating
Processes, and Class 118, Coating Apparatus.
For making of garments, etc., by braiding, netting, or lace
making, see Class 87, Textiles: Braiding, Netting, and Lace Making.
For making sanitary pads or garmet pads by depositing a fibrous
pad on a cloth base and folding the base around the pad see Class
19, Textiles: Fiber Preparation, subclass 147. For processes and
apparatus for laminating in general and for forming a pad by a Class
19 operation combined with a laminating step see Class 156, Adhesive
Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture, appropriate subclasses.
Package Making, appropriate subclasses, for a method of an apparatus
for packaging stockings which includes some significant packaging
operation beyond the mere insertion of a form in the stocking (e.g.,
banding, wrapping, etc.).
Prosthesis (i.e., Artificial Body Members), Parts
Thereof, or Aids and Accessories Therefor, appropriate subclass for body forms, frames or structures
used to replace portions of a living human body.
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Devices including means to cut the lower end of a garment
so as to fix the height of the hem above the ground when worn.
(1)
Note. This art grouping includes the combination of marking
and cutting means.
Machines, tools and processes for performing various manufacturing
operations on a collar, cuff, or the bosom of a shirt. Cutting,
pressing, embossing and folding, and combinations of these acts,
restricted to collar, cuffs, and bosoms, are here.
Package Making,
subclasses 428+ for methods and subclasses 117+ for apparatus
to form a package including means to fold or roll up sheet material or
garments.
Coating Apparatus, for coating apparatus and processes, especially
subclass 32 for coating apparatus combined with means to fold
the work, and subclasses 58+ for coating apparatus combined
with means to dry the work.
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Devices for and processes of making and renovating hats
coming not provided for below or in other classes.
(1)
Note. Combinations of methods or devices falling in Classes
19, Textiles: Fiber Preparation; 26, Textiles: Cloth Finishing;
28, Textiles: Manufacturing, with a device or method falling in
this class are placed here and cross-referenced into the other classes.
(2)
Note. Devices and methods for compacting, dipping, sizing,
pinning, clearing, napping, clipping, pouncing, pressing, shaping,
stretching, steaming, or otherwise operating on a formed hat or
hat body are in this class, with this exception that if adapted
for general application to textiles the device goes to Class 26,
Textiles: Cloth Finishing, or Class 28, Textiles: Manufacturing;
e.g., devices for operating on a hat body in flattened, rolled up,
folded or similar condition, are in Classes 26 or 28; the hat in
such case being regarded as a stock fabric.
Textiles: Manufacturing,
subclasses 116+ and especially subclass 124 for processes of an
apparatus for felting hats or hat blanks where no specific step
of or mechanism for forming hat structure, e.g., a brim is present.
There mere felting of a parabolic, conical or cylindrical blank
will not exclude a patent from Class 28.
Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating:
Processes, appropriate subclasses for processes for molding or shaping
plastic materials within the class definition, see for example
subclass 292 pertaining to processes which include the step
of stretching or stretch drawing over a form and subclass 296 for
plural sequential shaping processes wherein one step reshapes only
a portion of an article.
Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating:
Apparatus,
subclasses 383+ for a molding machine comprising preform reshaping
or resizing means, or vulcanizing means with a conforming preform
support.
Apparel,
subclasses 175.3+ for a hat including an edge binding; and subclass
274 for an edge binding for garments not specifically provided for elsewhere.
Devices and methods for smoothing or polishing the nap of
a hat by abrading, rubbing, brushing, or the like operation. The
use of a sand-papering device or a polishing and coating device
is here.
Apparel,
subclasses 181+ for a liner for a head covering, a head covering having
a liner, a method of making a liner for a head covering, or a method of
making a head covering having a liner and subclass 175.3 for an
exterior band for a hat, a hat having an exterior band, a method
of making an exterior band for a hat, or a method of making a hat
having an exterior band.
Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating:
Apparatus,
subclasses 363+ for a press reshaping means including an endless
surface and subclasses 383+ for a preform reshaping means
for nonmetallic materials not provided for elsewhere.
Devices making plaits by means of one or more reciprocating
blades operating generally against a slotted bed or between rolls
or other plaiting elements.
Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating:
Apparatus,
subclasses 369+ for a preform corrugating means comprising opposed
endless shaping means.
This subclass is indented under subclass 28. Devices and methods having a boardlike form having means
in the form of rods or projections on which the material is plaited.
In some instances the board serves merely to hold the material which
is plaited by a hand implement or by a pattern element.
This subclass is indented under subclass 35. Hand implements. These include combined sad and fluting
irons, and hand irons, having teeth intermeshing with a bed.
Devices and methods for folding garments and the like or
parts thereof. Devices for folding collars and cuff blanks, for
folding selvage edges, cuffs, or borders, on stockings, pants, and
the like, are here.
Package Making,
subclasses 428+ for methods and subclasses 117+ for apparatus
to form a package including means to fold or roll up sheet material or
garments.
Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacturing, appropriate subclasses for processes and apparatus for
laminating combined with a shaping step and see especially
subclasses 339+ .
Manufacturing Container or Tube From Paper; or
Other Manufacturing From a Sheet or Web,
subclasses 405+ for folding a nonmetal sheet or web, generally.
This subclass is indented under subclass 37. Machines, implements, and processes for folding coming,
and having a templet over which the edge of the material is folded
by movable folder blades.
This subclass is indented under subclass 39. Devices coming having opposed members telescopically related,
one passing within or between the opposing member or members.
This subclass is indented under subclass 39. Devices coming and having supports arranged end to end in
abutting relation, the article being pulled from one to the other
and thereby reversed.
This is the general subclass for making and attaching trimmings
to apparel, table ware and similar objects unless provided in other
classes as noted below.
(1)
Note. For making ornamentations by sewing, weaving, knitting,
dyeing, or other processes provided for in the textile classes,
see the appropriate class.
(2)
Note. Button setters not provided for in another class are
placed in this subclass, except for hooked-needle or eyed-needle types,
for which see Search This Class, Subclass notes below.
Apparel,
subclasses 244+ for trimmings and for ornamental articles of apparel
and similar ornamental articles; subclasses 265+ for other
means or for methods of attaching a button to apparel,
Sewing, appropriate subclasses for sewn trimming stock material;
subclasses 104+ and 265.1 for means or methods of attaching a button
by using a sewing machine.
Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture, appropriate subclasses, for methods and apparatus
for securing elements together by a laminating operation.
Elongated-Member-Driving Apparatus,
subclasses 31+ for apparatus which attaches a button by driving
it or a securing member (e.g., a staple) into a workpiece.
Stock Material or Miscellaneous Articles, appropriate subclasses for trimming material which is not
sewn, and
subclasses 102+ for stock material which may be used as trimming
material and which includes stitching and discrete fasteners, coating
or an adhesive bond.
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