CPC Definition - Subclass D06B
This place covers:
Apparatuses and methods for treating textile materials by liquids, gases or vapours.
This place does not cover:
Mechanical treatment of natural fibrous or filamentary material to obtain fibres or filaments |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Applying liquids to surfaces in general | |
Applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces in general conveying in general | |
Handling webs or filaments in general | |
Treating leather | |
Laundering | |
Treatment, not provided for elsewhere in class D06, of fibres, threads, yarns, fabrics, feathers or fibrous goods made from such materials |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Fabric | yarns in warp or sheet form |
Textile material | fabrics, yarns, nonwoven or other fibrous materials |
Indefinite length | an extent of material having the characteristics that the longitudinal dimension is effectively infinite in so far as the procedure for advancing or moving the material is concerned |
Cheeses, cones or cakes | yarn packages formed by yarn wound on cores |
This place covers:
Apparatuses and methods for applying liquids, gases or vapours on to textile materials by spraying, pouring or contact with a material carrying member to effect treatment, e.g. washing, dyeing, bleaching, sizing or impregnating.
This place does not cover:
Mercerising | |
Solvent-treatment | |
Treatment of selected parts of textile materials | |
With aid of vibration |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Transfer application of finishing agents |
This place covers:
Spraying or projecting on all surfaces of the textile material.
This place does not cover:
From outlets being in, or almost in, contact with the textile material |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Spraying in general |
This place covers:
Apparatuses and methods for passing textile materials through liquids, gases or vapours to effect treatment, e.g. washing, dyeing, bleaching, sizing or impregnating.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Washing or drying artificial filaments i.e. during a continuous production process before the filaments have been collected |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Sliver | a continuous strand of loosely assembled fibres without twist |
Roving | a condensed sliver in an intermediate state in the yarn production between sliver and yarn that has been drafted, twisted, doubled and redoubled. The production of the first roving operation is sometimes called slubbing. |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Yarns or threads with coloured effects, i.e. by differential dyeing process, |
This place covers:
Dyeing, bleaching, washing etc. of cheeses for example by dipping in a treatment bath (i.e. not pressurized).
This place does not cover:
Forcing liquids, gases or vapours through yarns, threads or filaments (e.g. treating in containers under pressure) |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Cheeses or cones | yarn packages formed by yarn wound on cores. |
This place covers:
All means to enhance the fabric treatment, e.g. the use of steam or water jets during a washing or scouring treatment of a moving web transported in a vat or a tank.
This place covers:
Treatment of fabrics passing through liquids, i.e. during washing, which are enhanced by LOW frequency vibrations, e.g. by vibrations induced on the fabric by mechanical devices acting directly on the fabric or by hydraulic waves.
This place does not cover:
Treatment of textile materials with liquids, gases or vapours with aid of high frequency vibration, e.g. ultrasound |
This place covers:
Apparatuses and methods for forcing liquids, gases or vapours through textile materials to effect treatment, e.g. washing, dyeing, bleaching, sizing or impregnating.
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Materials of indefinite length | (e.g. continuous webs or continuous yarns) are materials having the characteristics that the longitudinal dimension is effectively infinite in so far as the procedure for advancing or moving the material is concerned. |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Materials of definite length | have to be understood as textile articles, i.e. garments, webs or yarns, with a definite length which can be subjected to treatment in a "batch" process. For example, yarns wound on cheeses or fabric web wrapped around a drum are considered as materials of definite length. |
This place covers:
Apparatuses and methods for forcing liquids, gases or vapours through textile materials to effect treatment, e.g. packages of yarns stacked on rods located in containers and treated under pressure, e.g. autoclave.
In patent documents, the following words/expressions are often used as synonyms:
- "cheese", "cakes", "cones" and "packages"
This place covers:
Apparatuses and methods for mercerising textile materials.
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Mercerisation | is a chemical treatment for cellulosic textile materials which gives the materials a lustrous appearance and improves the strength and affinity for dyes. The treatment involves immersion under tension in a caustic soda solution, which is later neutralised in acid. The treatment produces a permanent swelling of the fibre. |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Fabrics of indefinite length | (e.g. continuous webs) are materials having the characteristics that the longitudinal dimension is effectively infinite in so far as the procedure for advancing or moving the material is concerned (to distinguish from a "batch" treatment). |
This place covers:
Apparatuses and methods for solvent (e.g. ammonia) treatment of textile materials.
Examples of places where the subject matter of this place is covered when specially adapted, used for a particular purpose, or incorporated in a larger system:
Dry-cleaning apparatus and methods for fabrics using volatile solvents |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Separation of gases or vapours, recovering vapours of volatile solvents from gases etc |
This place covers:
Treatments on selected parts of textile materials, e.g. dyeing patterns on yarns or fabrics.
This place does not cover:
The entire treatment of the surface or the material | |
Printing on textile | |
Ink-jet dyeing or printing processes for textile |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Conversion of colour picture signals for textile printing |
This place covers:
Treatment by transfer, e.g. transferring dye from a dyed paper onto a textile material or transferring an adhesive pattern from a tape onto a textile material.
This place does not cover:
Transfer printing apparatus for textile | |
Apparatus for applying decalcomanias |
This place covers:
Apparatuses and methods to obtain dyed textile materials with a faded look, e.g. through sandblasting, laser carving, abrading, washing with pumice or stones in order to obtain a worn-out look on jeans etc.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Laser beam treatment of fibres, threads, yarns, fabrics, or fibrous goods made of such materials |
In patent documents, the following words/expressions are often used as synonyms:
- "jeans" and "denim"
- "pumice" and "stone"
This place covers:
Treatment of textile materials by liquids, gases or vapours which are enhanced by high frequency vibrations, e.g. ultrasound devices in direct contact with the textile material or not in contact with the textile material.
This place does not cover:
Treatments of fabrics passing through liquids, i.e. during washing, which are enhanced by low frequency vibrations, e.g. mechanical vibration |
This place covers:
Apparatuses and methods for removing liquids, gases or vapours from textile materials in association with treatment of the materials by liquids, gases or vapours.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Drying |
This place covers:
Apparatuses and methods for storing the textile materials in association with the treatment of the materials by liquids, gases or vapours, e.g. heat-setting of yarns or fabrics in a steam chamber (steamer).
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Carriers or supports for textile materials to be treated |
This place covers:
The storing of textile materials in helical form, e.g. heat setting treatments of yarns which lay in helical form on a conveyor passing through a heated tunnel.
This place covers:
Apparatuses and methods for the treatment of textile materials by liquids, gases or vapours not provided for in groups D06B 1/00 - D06B 17/00.
This place covers:
Successive treatments, i.e. involving two or more treatments in succession, of textile materials by liquids, gases or vapours.
The group covers successive treatments with detailed or non-detailed single treatments. Details of single treatments are additionally classified in the relevant groups.
This place covers:
Components parts, details or accessories of apparatus for treatment of textile materials.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Registering, tensioning, smoothing or guiding webs in general (e.g. paper or plastic webs) |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Rollers for calendering, pressing, ironing, glossing or glazing textile fabrics | |
Calenders for paper | |
Rolls in paper calenders | |
Rollers in general |
This place covers:
Compression rollers or calenders, e.g. for compressing the textile material or for squeezing out liquid from the textile material.
This place covers:
e.g. perforated drums for dyeing, washing treatment or imparting a water jet treatment to a fabric.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Cores, formers, supports or holders for coiled, wound or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans | |
Supporting artificial filaments during physical treatment |
This place covers:
e.g. perforated tubes for dyeing yarn packages.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Forcing liquids, gases or vapours through yarns, threads or filaments of definite lengths, i.e. packages |
In patent documents, the following words/expressions are often used as synonyms:
- "cheeses", "cakes", "cones" and "packages"
- "bobbins", "dyeing tubes" and "cores"
This place covers:
Devices for dyeing samples, e.g. small laboratory devices for testing fabric samples.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Investigating or analysing fabric or woven textiles |