Class 026: TEXTILES: CLOTH FINISHING ( Manual of U.S. Patent Classification )

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as of June 30, 2000

Class
026
TEXTILES: CLOTH FINISHING

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Subclass		Title
ClassTitle		===> TEXTILES: CLOTH FINISHING

1		MISCELLANEOUS
2R		PILE FABRICS
2E		. Electrifiers
3		SINGEING
4		. Articles
5		. . On attached form
6		. Heated contact element
7		CUTTING
8R		. Pile loops
9		. . With simultaneous feeding
10R		. . . With stopping
10C		. . . . Rotary cutters
8C		. . Rotary cutters
10.4		. Weft end or selvage float loop removal
11		. Float threads
11.4		. . Venetian blind tapes
12		. . With feeding
13		. Double pile fabric
14		. . Loom type
15R		. Shearing
16		. . Ornamental
17		. . With seam detector
18		. . Automatic extension rests
15L		. . With lubrication
15FB		. . With flexible bed
18.5		SHRINKING
18.6		. Thread compacting
19		. Fulling
20		. . Continuous web machines
21		. . . Pleating type
22		. . Beater type
23		. . . Gravity stroke
24		. . Stopping
25		BEATING
26		. Beetling
27		RUBBING
28		. Abrasive
29R		NAPPING
30		. Ornamental
31		. Napping surface feature
32		. . Machines
33		. Planetary
34		. . Including drive feature
35		. . . Drives
36		. Reciprocating napping element
37		. Single fixed-position napping roll
29P		. With pneumatic lint removal
51		STRETCHING OR SPREADING AND WORKING
51.3		. Weft angle adjusting
51.4		. . Automatically controlled
51.5		. . . With photoelectric scanning or detecting means
52		. Traveling clamp or hook type
53		. . Reciprocating frames
71		EXPANDING DEVICE FOR TEXTILE WEBS
72		. Biaxial expansion
73		. . By successively accelerating spreader members of traveling set
74		. Web-condition-responsive operation control
75		. . Responsive to edge location to control spreader
76		. . . To adjust tenter frame
77		. . . To adjust angle of selvage-engaging roller spreader
78		. . . Roller spreader pair nip control
79		. . . To activate traveling spreader member responsive to removal from feeler
80		. Tubular-fabric-enclosed spreader
81		. . Including heater or dryer
82		. . With slitter, for opening up
83		. . With rotary feeder or bearing at spreader ends
84		. . . Driven
85		. . . . Multi-dimensional spreader (e.g., tube or spider)
86		. Overfeed arrangement; or rotary pinner for traveling pin spreader set
87		. Spreader
88		. . Acting on fabric edge only
89		. . . Edge-retaining traveler set (i.e., tenter)
90		. . . . Edge-entraining wheel
91		. . . . Laterally adjustable tenter frame
92		. . . . With heater or dryer
93		. . . . Set is series of traveling clamps
94		. . . . . Including clamp manipulator
95		. . . . . And mating pin series set
96		. . . . Set is traveling pin series
97		. . . Roller spreader
98		. . . Edge straightener; e.g., uncurler
99		. . Roller spreader
100		. . . Axially slidable sections
101		. . . Bowed
102		. . . . Plural member roller
103		. . . . . Multi-spindle
104		. . . . . . Covered
105		. . . Bi-helical
106		. Including heater or dryer
69R		ORNAMENTAL
69A		. By shrinking
69B		. By fiber removal
69C		. By scraping
70		INSPECTING
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		DIGEST
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DIG 1		Edge and/or uncurling; stiffening

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Last Modified: 6 October 2000

Manual of U.S. Patent Classification as of June 30, 2000

Class 026 TEXTILES: CLOTH FINISHING

Manual of U.S. Patent Classification
as of June 30, 2000

Class
026
TEXTILES: CLOTH FINISHING