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Class 028
TEXTILES: MANUFACTURING
Class Definition:
This class is (a) generic as to processes of or apparatus for
the production of fabric articles or structures by the
mechanical interengagement of fibers, threads or the like and
(b) residual as to processes of or apparatus for the
production and treatment of fabric articles or structures.
This class also provides for processes of or apparatus for
(a) treating fabric articles or structures in a manner not
provided for elsewhere, (b) preparing and handling of a sheet
of warp threads or pile threads up to and inclusive of its
insertion into a textile product fabricating apparatus, (c)
thread finishing or packaging not provided for elsewhere, and
(d) stripping bobbins of waste thread, and for
subcombinations peculiar to the above which are not provided
for elsewhere.
REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
8, Bleaching and Dyeing; Fluid Treatment and Chemical
Modification of Textiles and Fibers, appropriate subclass for
methods of treating textile fabrics, threads, fibers and the
like with a fluid to bleach, dye or chemically alter the
treated material either, per se, or combined with a broadly
recited textile operation.
19, Textiles: Fiber Preparation, appropriate subclass methods
of or apparatus for the preparation of fibers for use in the
manufacture of fabrics or thread-like structures. The
combination of texturing and staplizing a thread-like
structure will be placed in Class 19 if the texturing
precedes the staplizing and is performed to enhance a
characteristic of the fiber produced as a result of the
staplizing operation.
26, Textiles: Cloth Finishing, appropriate subclass for the
mechanical treatment of a running length of textile fabric to
put it into a better marketable condition.
34, Drying and Gas or Vapor Contact With Solids, appropriate
subclass for methods of and apparatus for drying textile
structures.
53, Package Making, appropriate subclass especially subclass
396 and 582+ for methods of and apparatus for the packaging
of thread units with material other than a strand-like wrap
and where no additional thread finishing operation is
recited.
57, Textiles: Spinning, Twisting, and Twining, appropriate
subclass for methods of or apparatus for treating and
twisting a thread, yarn or the like, for texturing a thread,
yarn or the like by a twisting technique, e.g., false twist,
or for forming a composite yarn by means of an air jet where
one strand is wrapped about another in either a continuous or
discontinuous spiral wrap.
66, Textiles: Knitting, appropriate subclass for the
fabrication of a textile product by the interlacing of yarn
or thread in a series of connected loops and for such
fabrication combined with "on the machine" treatment of the
yarn, thread or the formed textile product.
68, Textiles: Fluid Treating Apparatus, appropriate subclass
for apparatus for contacting a textile product with a gas or
liquid in a manner not provided for elsewhere.
87, Textiles: Braiding, Netting, and Lace Making, appropriate
subclass for methods and apparatus (a) for intertwining a
plurality of strands to form a plait-like structure, (b) for
intertwining or knotting a plurality of strands into an open
meshed fabric, or (c) for forming a plurality of strands into
an ornamental openwork fabric, and the products formed by
such methods or apparatus.
112, Sewing, appropriate subclass for producing a thread
interlaced textile structure by a thread stitching
operation.
118, Coating Apparatus, appropriate subclass for apparatus
for applying a coating material to textile products,
including individual threads, other than a sheet of warp
threads.
139, Textiles: Weaving, appropriate subclass for the
fabrication of a thread interlaced textile product which is
formed by arranging one set of threads transversely to
another set such that each thread of one set lays above some
and below the remainder of the threads of the other set and
is clamped in place by this arrangement and for such
fabrication combined with "on the machine" treatment of
thread or yarn used in product fabrication or of the formed
textile product.
156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture,
appropriate subclass, especially subclasses 148+ for the
formation of a textile fabric or structure by securing a
preform, such as a bat, mat, thread or yarn, to another
preform or to itself by an adhesive bonding technique.
Examples of the subject matter to be found in Class 156 are:
forming a textile product by weaving or knitting and
subsequently treating the component thread of the product to
cause it to fuse or otherwise adhesively bind to itself or to
another thread at the cross-over point, adhesively securing a
backing member to a pile fabric formed by weaving, knitting
or needling, etc.
162, Paper Making and Fiber Liberation, appropriate subclass
for the fabrication or treatment of paper.
165, Heat Exchange, appropriate subclass especially
subclasses 89+ for yarn heaters of the heat exchange type.
219, Electric Heating, appropriate subclass and especially
subclasses 770+ and 469+ for yarn heating apparatus having
specific electrical heater structure.
223, Apparel Apparatus, subclasses 12+ for felting machines
which have means for forming hat structure, e.g., a brim. The
mere felting of a parabolic, conical or cylindrical blank
will not exclude a patent from this class (28).
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, appropriate subclass
for the winding of strand-like material onto a carrier and
especially subclass 472.8 for a winding device combined with
a guide means for combining a plurality of independent
strands into a single untwisted entity which is subsequently
wound upon a carrier.
264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating:
Processes, subclass 103 for a plastic molding or treating
operation combined with a step of twining, braiding, plying
or twisting multiple elements about each other; subclasses
109+ for the process of forming a bat, mat or the like of
randomly associated fibers which fibers are fused or
adhesively bound to one another at their cross-over points;
subclasses 165+ and especially subclass 168 for the extrusion
or extrusion and subsequent treatment of a strand-like
member; subclasses 280+ for the reshaping of previously
formed elements of indeterminate length other than thread,
yarn or the like, except that subclasses 288.4+ takes
processes for stretching work of indeterminate length whether
or not such work is thread, yarn or the like; and subclasses
342+ for the treatment of a unitary thread formed of
distinct, diverse extruded polymeric components which are
arranged to run the length of the thread in a side by side
fashion and which each shrink at a different rate when
treated, to effect distortion of the thread.
289, Knots and Knot Tying, appropriate subclass for methods
or apparatus for securing the ends of flexible strand-like
members by tying and for the product of such a tying
operation.
419, Powder Metallurgy Processes, appropriate subclasses for
processes of forming articles by uniting particulate material
containing metal particles.
425, Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating:
Apparatus, appropriate subclass for the extrusion or
extrusion and subsequent treatment of a strand-like member
and especially subclass 66 and 76 for the extrusion and
subsequent elongation of a strand-like member and the
imparting of an irregular denier to a strand-like member,
respectively.
427, Coating Processes, appropriate subclasses for coating or
impregnating processes combined with a broadly recited
textile operation.
428, Stock Material or Miscellaneous Articles, appropriate
subclass for a stock material product which is made by a
method or apparatus provided for in this class (28), where
such a product is not elsewhere classified.
432, Heating, subclass 8 and 59+ for methods and apparatus
for heating running lengths of strandlike material, e.g.,
yarn, in a manner not provided for elsewhere.
SUBCLASSES
Subclass:
100
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Method
or apparatus wherein (a) fibers, filaments, rovings, slivers,
strands, threads, yarns or the like are brought together to
form a discrete textile article or a textile structure of
indeterminate length in a manner not elsewhere provided for,
(b) a textile article or structure, which is made in a manner
provided for elsewhere, is conditioned in a manner which is
not provided for in the appropriate manufacture class, or (c)
a textile article or structure is conditioned in a manner not
elsewhere provided for.
(1) Note. Included herein is the combination of
preconditioning a component of a textile article or structure
and subsequent assembly of the article or structure.
(2) Note. The formation of a nonwoven textile structure of
reinforced or cross-laid threads is found herein.
Subclass:
101
This subclass is indented under subclass 100. Method or
apparatus wherein a nonwoven textile article or structure is
formed by deposition of a thread component transversely of a
longitudinally extended substrate, usually of thread
components, by a member which pursues a circular or
elliptical path of travel about the substrate.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
19, Textiles: Fiber Preparation, subclass 160 and 163 for
deposition of sliver or web, respectively, in a zigzag
fashion.
66, Textiles: Knitting, subclasses 84+ for feeding a
cross-layed weft to a warp knitting machine.
156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture,
subclass 177 for methods of adhesively bonding cross-layed
webs, and subclasses 439+ for apparatus for adhesively
bonding cross-layed webs.
Subclass:
102
This subclass is indented under subclass 100. Method or
apparatus wherein a nonwoven textile article or structure is
formed by deposition of a thread component transversely of a
longitudinally extended substrate, usually of thread
components, by endless movable means which deviate from a
thread- receiving zone of close adjacency to a thread
deposition zone wherein the means are further apart to draw
out and the extend the transverse thread component in transit
therebetween.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
19, Textiles: Fiber Preparation, subclass 160 and 163 for
deposition of sliver or web, respectively, in a zigzag
fashion.
66, Textiles: Knitting, subclass 84 for feeding a
cross-layed weft to a warp knitting machine.
156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture,
subclass 177 for methods of adhesively bonding cross-layed
webs, and subclasses 439+ for apparatus for adhesively
bonding cross-layed webs.
Subclass:
103
This subclass is indented under subclass 100. Method or
apparatus wherein the component members of a nonwoven textile
article or structure are rearranged to intermingle, one with
the other, and are held in such intermingled condition by
interfiber friction existing therebetween.
(1) Note. The term "nonwoven" as utilized herein includes a
textile article or structure assembled by operations other
than weaving, knitting, braiding, lacing, knotting or sewing,
particularly including a textile article or structure
assembled by needling, felting, cross-laying (not found in
this subclass) and combinations thereof.
(2) Note. The term "fiber" as utilized herein generally
intends the fundamental unit of determinate, i.e., staple,
length in the preparation of a textile article or structure
but may also include a thread of substantial determinate or
indeterminate length which is either used in the preparation
of an individual needled or felted nonwoven article or
structure or as a nonwoven entity of a composite needled or
felted nonwoven article or structure.
(3) Note. Fiber entangling and interlocking of a thread or a
thread interlaced article or fabric, per se, as by needling
or felting for example, is excluded from this subclass since
such treatment operations serve to enhance or embellish
rather than to create or establish the textile article or
structure. However, the preparation of a base, layer or
substrate by a thread interlacing operation such as by
weaving, knitting or the like, which base, layer or substrate
is subsequently utilized in the manufacture of a composite
nonwoven article or structure is included herein.
(4) Note. Fiber entangling and interlocking by subjecting a
nonwoven textile structure under tensionless conditions to
the influence of a fluid medium to develop latent shrinkage
tendencies of the component members thereof, i.e., relaxation
after treatment is found herein.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 271+ for entangling a running length of thread
by fluid jet.
281 for entangling a running length of thread by latent bulk
or crimp development.
subclasses 282+ for blooming or dephasing a running length
of bulked or crimped tow where the intent is not to create a
coherent, entangled, unitary, nonwoven web.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
19, Textiles: Fiber Preparation, subclasses 296+ for
assembling a web-like structure in a manner not found
elsewhere.
65, Glass Manufacturing, subclasses 443+ and 531+ for
processes and apparatus, respectively, for combined glass
filament formation and nonwoven web formation with coating or
treatment thereto.
264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating:
Processes, subclasses 109+ for methods of forming articles
by uniting randomly associated particles which are either
fused at their cross-over points or adhesively bound to one
another.
419, Powder Metallurgy Processes, appropriate subclasses for
processes of forming articles by uniting particulate material
containing metal particles.
425, Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating:
Apparatus, subclass 80.1 for air felting type shaping
means.
Subclass:
104
This subclass is indented under subclass 103. Method or
apparatus wherein the rearrangement of the component members
of nonwoven textile article or structure is accomplished by
means of a gaseous or liquid stream which impinges against
and penetrates the surface of the textile article or
structure to either a) merely effect entangling and
interlocking of the component members, or b) to spread or
separate the component members to form a permanent aperture
through the textile article or structure.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
106 for forming perforations in a nonwoven textile article
or structure by other than fluid jet means.
subclasses 107+ for needling a nonwoven textile article or
structure by other than fluid jet means.
subclasses 271+ for fluid jet texturing of a running length
of thread.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
26, Textiles: Cloth Finishing, subclass 1 for methods of and
apparatus for needling or perforating cloth.
83, Cutting, appropriate subclass for methods and apparatus
of penetrating or cutting work in a manner not provided for
elsewhere by application of a fluid current thereto.
239, Fluid Sprinkling, Spraying, and Diffusing, appropriate
subclass for specific nozzle structure.
427, Coating Processes, subclasses 289+ for a coating step
combined with cutting, holing, or severing of the base
material to remove a portion thereof.
Subclass:
105
This subclass is indented under subclass 104. Method or
apparatus wherein impingement of the fluid stream is applied
to the nonwoven textile article or structure while sandwiched
between upper and lower permeable or porous sustaining
elements which form a rearranging zone for the component
members of the article or structure.
(1) Note. The sustaining elements commonly comprise an
apertured forming member through which the fluid stream is
first directed and which determines the locations of the
fluid stream in the rearranging zone and a permeable backing
member through which the fluid leaves the rearranging zone.
Subclass:
106
This subclass is indented under subclass 103. Method or
apparatus wherein the rearrangement of the component members
of the nonwoven textile article or structure is effected by
surface penetration thereof to form a permanent aperture or
opening therein.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 104+ for perforating a nonwoven textile article
or structure utilizing a fluid jet.
subclasses 163+ for producing an ornamental or surface
textured perforated thread interlaced textile fabric.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
26, Textiles: Cloth Finishing, subclass 1 for methods of and
apparatus for perforating cloth.
83, Cutting, appropriate subclass for methods of or apparatus
for penetrating or cutting work in a manner not provided for
elsewhere.
264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating:
Processes, subclasses 154+ for a method of shaping with an
additional step of forming holes or apertures in the shaped
article.
425, Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating:
Apparatus, subclasses 290+ for shaping means combined with
means to perforate the shaped article.
427, Coating Processes, subclasses 289+ for a coating step
combined with contacting the base with a solid member to
remove a portion of the base material, inclusive of pricking
of the base with small needle-like devices.
Subclass:
107
This subclass is indented under subclass 103. Method or
apparatus wherein the rearrangement of the component members
of the nonwoven textile article or structure is effected by
surface penetration thereof by thin, usually barbed, rods,
bars or the like.
(1) Note. The needling operation is usually performed by
banks of reciprocating needles with the feed of the starting
material being stepwise between successive needle
penetrations to bind together adjacently disposed fibers with
respect to themselves and/or to a substrate in the formation
of a unitary, coherent article or structure.
(2) Note. The effects of the needling operation may be
varied, including the uniting of discrete articles or
structures to each other, the creation of an upstanding pile
on a substrate, drawing or stretching of the component
members of the article or structure in addition to the
reorientation or rearrangement thereof, innumerable aesthetic
applications in addition to conventional usage.
(3) Note. The needling of a thread interlaced article or
fabric, per se, is not proper for this subclass.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 104+ for fluid jet needling of a nonwoven
textile article or structure.
subclasses 159+ for producing a thread interlaced pile
fabric by a needling operation.
subclasses 163+ for producing an ornamental or surface
textured fabric by a needling operation.
subclasses 165+ for treating a thread interlaced fabric by
a needling operation.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture,
subclasses 148+ for a process of needling combined with
adhesive bonding.
Subclass:
108
This subclass is indented under subclass 107. Method or
apparatus wherein the needling operation effects the
formation of continuously extending links, loops or stitches
of component members or the nonwoven textile article or
structure along an axis thereof.
(1) Note. Needling devices termed "interlacers" and provided
with hooked, not barbed, needles which are capable of chain
entanglement of the fibers of the article or structure will
be placed in this subclass and appropriately cross-referenced
herein below.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
66, Textiles: Knitting, appropriate subclass especially
subclasses 85+, for the fabrication of an article or fabric
by entangling or interlocked successive loops of thread or
yarn.
Subclass:
109
This subclass is indented under subclass 107. Method or
apparatus wherein the needling operation produces an
ornamental or motif nonwoven textile item, structure or
effect.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 163+ for the production of a thread interlaced
ornamental or surface textured, thread interlaced textile
fabric.
Subclass:
110
This subclass is indented under subclass 107. Method or
apparatus wherein the needling operation a) is performed on,
or b) effects a closed loop item or structure.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
117 for forming an endless or tubular nonwoven textile
article or fabric by uniting or splicing by a compressive
manipulation operation.
141 for forming a thread interlaced endless or tubular
textile article or fabric by a splicing operation.
142 for the production of an endless or tubular, thread
interlaced, textile fabric.
Subclass:
111
This subclass is indented under subclass 107. Method or
apparatus wherein needling is effected at a plurality of
separate, discrete locations.
(1) Note. Plural needling locations within a single treating
device will not be formed herein.
Subclass:
112
This subclass is indented under subclass 107. Method or
apparatus wherein an additional operation is performed upon
the needled nonwoven textile article or structure or a
component member thereof to enhance a property or
characteristic thereof.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
122 for the additional treatment of a nonwoven textile
article or structure produced by compressive manipulation or
of a component member thereof.
156 for subsequent treatment of a thread interlaced textile
fabric to effect differential shrinkage.
162 for subsequent treatment of a thread interlaced textile
fabric by a napping or teasing operation to effect or enhance
a pile surface thereof.
subclasses 165+ for subsequent treatment of a thread
interlaced textile fabric in general.
281 for subsequent treatment of a running length of thread,
e.g., tow, to effect latent bulk or crimp development.
Subclass:
113
This subclass is indented under subclass 107. Method or
apparatus wherein one of a plurality of needles or banks of
needles a) moves through a cycle different from that of
another needle or bank, b) moves at a different interval of
time than another needle or bank, or c) moves simultaneously
with but in a different direction than another needle or
bank.
Subclass:
114
This subclass is indented under subclass 107. Method or
apparatus wherein a) an additional component of movement is
applied to the surface penetrating rods, bars or the like, or
b) wherein a lateral or transverse component of movement is
applied to the component members of or substrate for the
textile article or structure during the feeding thereof in an
axial direction.
Subclass:
115
This subclass is indented under subclass 107. Method or
apparatus involving a) the particular structure of a rod, bar
or the like, of b) the particular arrangement of such
elements within the member containing the same.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
163, Needle and Pin Making, appropriate subclass for methods
of and apparatus for the manufacture of needles.
Subclass:
116
This subclass is indented under subclass 103. Method or
apparatus wherein fiber entangling and interlocking is
accomplished by a frictional working or kneading operation to
effect shrinkage, compaction or contraction of a nonwoven
textile article or structure or the attachment thereof to
another structure.
(1) Note. The compressive manipulation may be effected by
hand or mechanically, with or without an assisting fluid
medium, and commonly referred to in the art as "felting",
"fulling" or "milling".
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
112 for compressive manipulation of a nonwoven textile
article or structure prior to a needling operation.
subclasses 165+ for compressive manipulation of a thread
interlaced textile fabric.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
26, Textiles: Cloth Finishing, subclasses 19+ for methods
of or an apparatus for fulling an already formed fabric.
68, Textiles: Fluid Treating Apparatus, appropriate subclass
for apparatus of general utility for treating a cloth or
fabric with a fluid.
223, Apparel Apparatus, subclasses 7+ for apparatus for and
methods of operating the same for making or renovating hats.
The hat body felting apparatus found herein are combined with
means for forming specific hat structures, such as brims.
252, Compositions, subclass 8.61 for fulling compositions.
Subclass:
117
This subclass is indented under subclass 116. Method of
apparatus wherein the compressive manipulation operation
attaches or secures separate and distinct items or structures
or portions thereof to each other in the formation of apparel
or composite structures.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
110 for forming an endless or tubular nonwoven textile
article or fabric by uniting or splicing by a needling
operation.
141 for splicing or repair of a thread interlaced textile
article or fabric.
142 for the production of an endless or tubular, thread
interlaced, textile fabric.
Subclass:
118
This subclass is indented under subclass 116. Method or
apparatus wherein fibers are compacted by shaping apparatus
into a relatively soft absorbed cylindrical article, which is
adapted to be inserted into a body opening.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 123+ for compressive manipulation of a
nonplanar, nonwoven article or fabric.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
53, Package Making, subclass 435 and 523+ for packaging
methods and apparatus, respectively, including means to
compact or stretch the content material.
68, Textiles: Fluid Treating Apparatus, subclass 242 for
apparatus for squeezing a mass of textiles to promote
drainage of liquid therefrom.
100, Presses, appropriate subclass for processes and
apparatus not provided for elsewhere for producing compressed
bales of material.
156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture,
subclass 62.2 for processes of forming a preform by bulk
deposition of particles combined with a step of laminating
the formed preform to another preform.
162, Paper Making and Fiber Liberation, subclasses 218+ and
382+ for forming discrete articles from a liquid suspension
of fibers.
264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating:
Processes, subclasses 5+ for formation of particles by
liquid comminuting, subclasses 115+ for liberating and
forming of fibers by other than liquid comminuting combined
with uniting thereof, and subclasses 138+ for molding
combined with a cutting operation, particularly subclasses
140+ and 145+.
300, Brush, Broom, and Mop Making, appropriate subclasses for
machines and processes for compacting fibers into tufts in
the manufacture of brushes, brooms or mops.
425, Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating:
Apparatus, subclass 80.1 for shaping articles, utilizing an
air felting means to distribute particulate stock unto a
shaping surface.
427, Coating Processes, subclasses 243+ for processes of
coating porous products.
508, Solid Anti-Friction Devices, Materials Therefor,
Lubricant or Separant Compositions for Moving Solid Surfaces,
and Miscellaneous Mineral Oil Compositions, particularly
subclasses 100+ for lubricants incorporated with a fibrous
carrier.
604, Surgery, subclasses 11+ for tampon applicators;
subclasses 286+ for medicated tampons; subclasses 367+ for
materials, fibers, and particles from which tampons are made;
subclasses 358+ for absorbent pads, diapers, and tampons; and
subclass 904 for tampon cross-reference collection.
Subclass:
119
This subclass is indented under subclass 118. Method or
apparatus including means for forcing the compacted
cylindrical article out of the compacting area of the shaping
apparatus.
Subclass:
120
This subclass is indented under subclass 118. Method or
apparatus wherein a flexible withdrawing cord or ribbon is
secured to the cylindrical article or tampon.
Subclass:
121
This subclass is indented under subclass 116. Method or
apparatus wherein a textile item is formed by wrapping a mass
of fibers within a covering and wherein the mass of fibers is
compressed into a desired shape prior to, during or after the
wrapping occurs.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
29, Metal Working, appropriate subclass, for methods and
apparatus making composite articles.
53, Package Making, appropriate subclass, for the wrapping of
articles in packaging material.
Subclass:
122
This subclass is indented under subclass 116. Method or
apparatus including performing an additional operation upon
the compressively manipulated article or structure or a
component member thereof to enhance a property or
characteristic thereof.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
112 for the additional treatment of a nonwoven textile
article or structure produced by needling or of a component
member thereof.
156 for subsequent treatment of a thread interlaced textile
fabric to effect differential shrinkage.
162 for subsequent treatment of a thread interlaced textile
fabric by a napping or treating operation to effect or
enhance a pile surface thereon.
subclasses 165+ for subsequent treatment of a thread
interlaced textile fabric in general.
281 for subsequent treatment of a running length of thread
to effect latent bulk or crimp development.
Subclass:
123
This subclass is indented under subclass 116. Method or
apparatus for the compressive manipulation of an item or
structure having a three-dimensional configuration.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 118+ for compressive manipulation of fibers to
form a tampon.
Subclass:
124
This subclass is indented under subclass 123. Method or
apparatus wherein the compressive manipulation occurs while
the nonplanar item or structure is mounted on a shaping or
forming member.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
19, Textiles: Fiber Preparation, subclass 148 for depositing
fibers by means of an air current on a screen of the shape of
the object desired.
223, Apparel Apparatus, subclasses 7+ for apparatus for
forming hats, including felting apparatus, wherein structure
is provided for making a specific hat feature, such as a
brim.
Subclass:
125
This subclass is indented under subclass 123. Method or
apparatus wherein the item is wound on itself in roll or
cylinder form and worked in such configuration or the working
of a round, oval or cylindrical item.
Subclass:
126
This subclass is indented under subclass 125. Method or
apparatus including a plurality of cylindrical or round
members arranged so as to provide a cavity therebetween for
reception and manipulation of a coil or circular item
therewithin.
Subclass:
127
This subclass is indented under subclass 126. Method or
apparatus wherein a coil or circular item is caused to pursue
a path of travel during the manipulating operation through
the treating device.
Subclass:
128
This subclass is indented under subclass 126. Method or
apparatus wherein the exterior item contacting surface of a
cylindrical or round cavity or pocket forming member has
grooves, projections or like interruptions about the
circumference thereof.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
492, Roll or Roller, for a roll, per se, not elsewhere
provided for, and see the notes thereunder.
Subclass:
129
This subclass is indented under subclass 128. Method or
apparatus wherein the discontinuous exterior article or item
contacting surface of a cylindrical or round cavity or pocket
forming member gradually varies in profile along its
longitudinal axial extent or a portion thereof.
Subclass:
130
This subclass is indented under subclass 125. Method or
apparatus wherein a coil or circular article or item is
manipulated between spaced, oppositely adjacent, confronting
members, at least one of which is provided with orbital,
reciprocatory or oscillatory movement.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
74, Machine Element or Mechanism, appropriate subclass for
mechanical movements and power-transmission structure.
Subclass:
131
This subclass is indented under subclass 130. Method or
apparatus wherein the driven member is provided with orbital
and reciprocatory movement or orbital and oscillatory
movement.
Subclass:
132
This subclass is indented under subclass 130. Method or
apparatus wherein both confronting members are provided with
reciprocating or oscillating movement.
Subclass:
133
This subclass is indented under subclass 125. Method or
apparatus including the placement of an item within a
receptacle or vessel wherein the treatment is accomplished.
Subclass:
134
This subclass is indented under subclass 116. Method or
apparatus involving the working or kneading of an article or
structure between opposed beds of round or cylindrical
members such that the article or structure pursues a sinuous
path in transit therebetween.
Subclass:
135
This subclass is indented under subclass 134. Method or
apparatus including two or more separate, discrete
multiroller manipulating operations.
Subclass:
136
This subclass is indented under subclass 134. Method or
apparatus having at least two vertically aligned treating
paths defined by the roller assemblies with provision for
directing the article or structure from one to the other.
Subclass:
137
This subclass is indented under subclass 134. Method or
apparatus wherein the rollers are provided with either rotary
and oscillatory or rotary and reciprocatory movement.
Subclass:
138
This subclass is indented under subclass 116. Method
apparatus wherein the working or kneading of an article or
structure occurs between a rotary drum or roller and an
opposing, confronting member, or members arcuately shaped or
contoured to conform to a portion of the periphery of the
rotary drum or cylinder.
Subclass:
139
This subclass is indented under subclass 116. Method or
apparatus wherein the working or kneading of an article or
structure occurs between opposed, confronting elongate
noncircular elements, at least one of which is provided with
a to-and-fro movement.
Subclass:
140
This subclass is indented under subclass 100. Method or
apparatus for the fabrication or treatment of a textile item
or structure formed from thread by a braiding, knitting, x
knotting, lacing, sewing or weaving operation or combinations
thereof not otherwise provided for.
(1) Note. The term "thread" as utilized herein generally
intends the fundamental unit of substantial determinate or
indeterminate length in the preparation of a textile
structure rendered coherent by an orderly, predetermined
interlinking or intertwining of the unit with respect to
itself or another such unit.
(2) Note. "Thread", as utilized herein, generally represents
a slender elongate element composed of a fiber, filament,
roving, sliver, strand, yarn or the like, of individual or
multiple such elements, having twist therein or twistless, of
a single or multi-ply and combinations thereof.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
112 for the manufacture of a thread interlaced article or
structure utilized as a substrate in the production of a
composite, needled, nonwoven, textile structure.
122 for the manufacture of a thread interlaced article or
structure utilized as a substrate in the production of a
composite, compressively manipulated, nonwoven, textile
structure.
218 for thread texturing by textile product
fabrication-defabrication, e.g., knit- deknit.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
66, Textiles: Knitting, appropriate subclass for methods and
apparatus for forming a textile product by the interlacing of
yarn or thread in series of connected loops and for such
fabrication combined with "on the machine" treatment of the
yarn, thread or formed textile product.
87, Textiles: Braiding, Netting, and Lace Making, appropriate
subclass for methods of and apparatus for a) intertwining a
plurality of strands to form a plait-like structure, b) for
intertwining or knotting a plurality of strands into an open
mesh fabric, or c) forming a plurality of strands into an
ornamental openwork fabric.
112, Sewing, appropriate subclass for the production of a
thread interlaced textile structure by a thread stitching
operation.
139, Textiles: Weaving, appropriate subclass for the
fabrication of a thread interlaced textile product which is
formed by arranging one set of threads generally transversely
to another set such that each thread of one set lays above
some and below other threads of the other set and is thus
clamped in position by this arrangement and for such
fabrication combined with "on the machine" treatment of the
thread or yarn used in product fabrication or of the formed
textile product.
Subclass:
141
This subclass is indented under subclass 140. Method or
apparatus for (a) the renewal or restoration of a thread
interlaced textile article or structure to its original or
finished condition, or (b) the uniting of the ends of a
thread interlaced textile article or structure to each other
or an end thereof of another textile article or structure.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
110 for forming an endless or tubular nonwoven textile
article or fabric by uniting or splicing by a needling
operation.
117 for uniting discrete nonwoven textile articles or
fabrics by compressive manipulation.
142 for the production of an endless or tubular, thread
interlaced, textile fabric.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
57, Textiles: Spinning, Twisting, and Twining, subclasses 22+
and 362 for apparatus for and methods of joining or uniting
threads, cores, rope or the like by a twisting or twining
operation.
66, Textiles: Knitting, subclass 1.5 for methods of and
apparatus for repairing holes or runs in knitted fabrics.
140, Wireworking, subclasses 111+ for joining wire in an
end-to-end relationship.
156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture,
subclass 49 for splicing of indefinite length conductors,
and subclasses 157+ for processes of adhesively joining
elements in an end-to-end relationship to form a lamina of
indefinite length.
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, subclass 475.1 for
winding apparatus having means to unite a reserve thread to
the end of an exhausted supply and subclasses 551+ for
winding apparatus having means to unite the outer end of a
succeeding supply roll to the inner end of a preceding supply
roll.
Subclass:
142
This subclass is indented under subclass 140. Method or
apparatus for the fabrication or treatment of a continuous,
interminable thread interlaced textile structure defining a
closed loop.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
110 for the production of an endless or tubular needled,
nonwoven textile article or fabric.
117 for the production of an endless or tubular nonwoven
textile article or fabric including a splicing operation by
compressive manipulation.
141 for the production of a thread-interlaced endless or
tubular article or fabric by a splicing operation.
Subclass:
143
This subclass is indented under subclass 140. Method or
apparatus for the fabrication or treatment of a thread
interlaced textile item of finite dimensions, specific
configuration and use.
(1) Note. The mere act of cutting a thread interlaced
structure which is formed as a continuum into a plurality of
discrete items, e.g., sweater bodies, or the mere removal of
a transitory or temporary thread used to hold such articles
together will not be found in this or the indented
subclasses.
(2) Note. Complete disassembly of an article by removal of
the component members thereof will not be found in this or
the indented subclasses.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
168 for the separation of an article from a thread
interlaced structure formed as a continuum by fluid contact.
170 for the separation of an article from a thread
interlaced structure formed as a continuum by cutting or
transitory thread removal other than by fluid contact.
171 for the complete disassembly of an article by removal of
the component members thereof.
Subclass:
144
This subclass is indented under subclass 143. Method or
apparatus for the fabrication or treatment of a thread
interlaced elongate thread-like member having a protruding
pile surface.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
57, Textiles: Spinning, Twisting, and Twining, subclass 24
and 203 for the formation of chenille by twisting a plurality
of strand-like elements together to bind short transverse
threads or filaments.
Subclass:
145
This subclass is indented under subclass 143. Method or
apparatus for the fabrication or treatment of an ornamental
border comprising short straight or twisted thread portions,
strips, tassels, tufts and the like projecting from a cut or
raveled edge of a thread interlaced item or from a separate
fabric band to which such projections have been applied.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
144 for the production of chenille, a thread-like member
having protruding thread portions.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
112, Sewing, subclass 64 for apparatus for attaching fringes
or loops to the edge of a fabric.
Subclass:
146
This subclass is indented under subclass 145. Method or
apparatus wherein the ornamental border or fringe is produced
by disintegration or removal of threads or thread portions
from an edge of a thread interlaced item or fabric band.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
171 for the complete destruction or disintegration of a
thread interlaced textile article or fabric by fraying or
raveling.
Subclass:
147
This subclass is indented under subclass 143. Method or
apparatus for the fabrication or treatment of an ornamental
thread interlaced cluster of three-dimensional
configuration.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
112, Sewing, subclass 470.23 for apparatus for sewing one or
more pieces of cut yarn together in a bunch or to sew them
individually or collectively to a fabric backing without
inserting them through the backing.
223, Apparel Apparatus, subclass 46 for methods and
apparatus for making bows, tassels, and the like other than
binding or thread or yarn in bundles.
Subclass:
148
This subclass is indented under subclass 143. Method or
apparatus for the fabrication or treatment of a continuum
composed of a plurality of bands, ribbons, strips, webbings
and the like which are joined to each other by the insertion
of a portion of one of the bands, ribbons, or the like
through a slit formed in the next adjacent band, ribbon or
the like.
Subclass:
149
This subclass is indented under subclass 143. Method or
apparatus wherein a static structure is utilized to retain or
tension thread while the interlacing operation is performed
thereon.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
66, Textiles: Knitting, subclass 4 for thread frames with
pins or studs around which the loops of a knitted article are
formed during a knitting operation.
289, Knots and Knot Tying, subclass 16.5 for macrame
frames.
Subclass:
150
This subclass is indented under subclass 149. Method or
apparatus wherein thread is interlaced into an ornamental
disc-like item of floral design or fine-figured openwork.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
66, Textiles: Knitting, subclass 4 for circular thread
frames used in knitting a tubular fabric as opposed to single
rosette, bow, etc.
Subclass:
151
This subclass is indented under subclass 149. Method or
apparatus wherein thread is interlaced into a textile item by
directing one set of thread components sinuously over and
under a second set of such components in a particular pattern
to unite same in a coherent manner.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
139, Textiles: Weaving, subclasses 29+ and especially
subclass 34 for methods of weaving and for thread frames
having means specializing them for weaving, e.g., shedding
mechanisms, beat up motions, warp feed or take up, etc.
Subclass:
152
This subclass is indented under subclass 151. Method or
apparatus wherein the thread frame has provision for
retaining or securing both sets of thread components of the
textile item.
Subclass:
153
This subclass is indented under subclass 143. Method or
apparatus for the fabrication or treatment of thread
interlaced apparel or clothing for the body.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
123 and 124, for the production of a compressively,
manipulated, nonwoven garment.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
2, Apparel, appropriate subclass for apparel and methods for
the production thereof and subclass 243.1 for devices and
processes applicable to garments in general.
66, Textiles: Knitting, appropriate subclass for methods and
apparatus for the production of a garment upon a knitting
machine.
87, Textiles: Braiding, Netting, and Lace Making, appropriate
subclass for methods and apparatus for the production of a
garment by braiding, netting or lace making.
223, Apparel Apparatus, appropriate subclass for methods of
and apparatus for the production of garments not elsewhere
provided for.
Subclass:
154
This subclass is indented under subclass 153. Method or
apparatus for the fabrication or treatment of a
thread-interlaced sock, stocking or panty-hose.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
2, Apparel, subclasses 239+ for nether garments of the
stocking type and methods of making same involving more than
the fabricating, e.g., knitting operation.
66, Textiles: Knitting, subclasses 178+ for nether garments
of the stocking type and methods of making same by hand
knitting operations.
223, Apparel Apparatus, subclass 60 for methods and
apparatus for pressing a stocking; subclasses 75+ for a
stocking form; and subclass 112 for a device to remove a
stocking from a form.
Subclass:
155
This subclass is indented under subclass 140. Method or
apparatus for the fabrication or treatment of a thread
interlaced textile structure (a) capable of shape recovery
after deformation, or (b) having a crinkled surface texture.
(1) Note. The production of elasticity or crepe in localized
areas of a thread interlaced fabric is included herein.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
8, Bleaching and Dyeing; Fluid Treatment and Chemical
Modification of Textiles and Fibers, subclass 114.5 for
methods of chemically producing ornamental effects in fabric
by differential creping and subclass 117 for chemically
producing wool-like or crinkle effects in fabric.
66, Textiles: Knitting, appropriate subclass for methods or
apparatus for the production of an elastic or crepe fabric on
a knitting machine.
139, Textiles: Weaving, appropriate subclass for methods of
or apparatus for the production of an elastic or crepe fabric
on a loom.
162, Paper Making and Fiber Liberation, subclasses 111+ for
processes of creping paper and subclasses 280+ for apparatus
for creping paper.
264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating:
Processes, subclasses 282+ for processes of creping or
crinkling plastic or nonmetallic material in a manner not
provided for elsewhere.
Subclass:
156
This subclass is indented under subclass 155. Method or
apparatus wherein the component members of a thread
interlaced textile structure possess dissimilar contractile
properties which upon contraction impart the elasticity or
crepe surface to the structure.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
116 for particulars of a liquid bath to effect shrinkage
during compressive manipulation of a nonwoven textile article
or structure.
Subclass:
157
This subclass is indented under subclass 155. Method or
apparatus wherein sets of component members of the thread
interlaced textile structure are inclined or oriented
nonorthogonally to each other to impart elasticity to the
structure.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
26, Textiles: Cloth Finishing, subclass 51.3 for methods and
apparatus for adjusting the weft angle of a fabric to produce
a bias fabric or to return the weft angle to perpendicular
relationship with the warp.
29, Metal Working, subclass 2.1 for the bias cutting of
tubular stock.
Subclass:
158
This subclass is indented under subclass 140. Method or
apparatus for the fabrication or treatment of a textile
structure having plural thread interlaced layers
interconnected via component members interlaced within the
layers and extending therebetween at intervals along an axis
of the structure.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
26, Textiles: Cloth Finishing, subclasses 13+ for cutting
the connecting threads of two-ply fabric to produce two-pile
fabrics.
66, Textiles: Knitting, subclasses 196+ for multi-ply
products of a knitting apparatus.
139, Textiles: Weaving, subclasses 408+ for multi-ply
fabrics produced by a loom.
Subclass:
159
This subclass is indented under subclass 140. Method or
apparatus for the fabrication or treatment of a thread
interlaced textile structure having an upright or upstanding
surface of fibers, filaments, strands, threads, yarns or the
like.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
26, Textiles: Cloth Finishing, subclass 2 for the mechanical
treatment of a pile fabric and subclasses 7+ for cutting the
loops of a pile fabric.
66, Textiles: Knitting, subclasses 91+ for knitting
machines having pile loop formers.
112, Sewing, subclass 80.01 for tufting apparatus and
subclass 475.23 for tufting methods.
118, Coating Apparatus, subclasses 308+ for means for
projecting or spraying solid particulate matter onto a base,
e.g., flocking.
139, Textiles: Weaving, subclasses 2+ for looms having pile
tufting means.
156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture,
subclass 72 for methods of setting or embedding tufts or
discrete pile elements onto a backing and subclasses 148+ for
the production of a pile fabric by weaving, knitting or
needling.
427, Coating Processes, subclasses 180+ for deposition of
solid particles or fibers upon a base the same, e.g.,
flocking.
Subclass:
160
This subclass is indented under subclass 159. Method or
apparatus wherein the upright or upstanding pile surface is
nonuniform or irregular along an axis of the thread
interlaced textile structure.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
109 for the production of a decorative, needled, nonwoven
textile article or fabric.
subclasses 155+ for the production of a decorative, elastic
or crepe, thread-interlaced textile fabric.
subclasses 163+ for the production of an ornamental or
surface textured, thread-interlaced textile fabric.
184 for pattern setting of thread in the form of a warp
sheet in the production of a decorative or ornamental
fabric.
subclasses 214+ for pattern setting or thread utilized as
the pile in the production of a patterned axminster carpet or
the like.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
26, Textiles: Cloth Finishing, subclass 16 for methods and
apparatus for producing a discontinuous or patterned pile
surface by a shearing operation and subclass 30 for producing
such a surface by a napping operation.
Subclass:
161
This subclass is indented under subclass 159. Method or
apparatus wherein terminal portions of the upstanding pile
surface of the thread interlaced textile structure are
modified to enable the pile surface to effectively engage and
retain an associated pile surface of similar or looped
character.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
24, Buckles, Buttons, Clamps, etc., subclasses 442+ for
separable fasteners formed from pile fabric (e.g., VELCRO
(TM)).
Subclass:
162
This subclass is indented under subclass 159. Method or
apparatus wherein the upright or upstanding pile surface of
the thread interlaced textile structure is either created or
further enhanced by an abrading, brushing or combing
operation.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 112+ for subsequent treatment of a needled,
nonwoven textile article or structure, inclusive of napping
or teasing.
subclasses 122+ for subsequent treatment of a compressively
manipulated nonwoven textile article or structure, inclusive
of napping or teasing.
219 for napping or teasing a running length of thread.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
26, Textiles: Cloth Finishing, subclasses 29+ for the
production of a pile in an already fabricated textile product
by napping.
Subclass:
163
This subclass is indented under subclass 140. Method or
apparatus for the fabrication or treatment of a thread
interlaced textile structure having a decorative or motif
appearance.
(1) Note. The combination of a significantly claimed textile
operation and effect coloring, inclusive of printing in
localized areas, to produce pattern effects on a thread
interlaced textile structure will be found herein.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
109 for the production of a decorative, needled, nonwoven
article or fabric.
subclasses 155+ for the production of a decorative, elastic
or crepe, thread-interlaced textile fabric.
160 for the production of a thread-interlaced pile fabric
having a discontinuous or patterned surface.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
8, Bleaching and Dyeing; Fluid Treatment and Chemical
Modification of Textiles and Fibers, subclasses 114+ for
methods of producing an ornamental effect in a textile
product by fluid treatment or chemical modification and
subclass 117 for the production of wool-like or crinkled
effect upon a textile fabric by chemical modification.
26, Textiles: Cloth Finishing, subclass 69 for methods of or
an apparatus for producing an ornamental effect by
mechanically finishing cloth.
87, Textiles: Braiding, Netting, and Lace Making, appropriate
subclass for methods of and apparatus for the production of
net or lace fine work.
101, Printing, appropriate subclass for embossing or printing
ornamental designs on textile products.
Subclass:
164
This subclass is indented under subclass 163. Method or
apparatus wherein the decorative of motif appearance is
imparted by stitching designs with thread and the like onto a
substrate.
(1) Note. The fabrication of embroidery by a stitching
operation in combination with another textile or nontextile
operation, not specifically provided for elsewhere, will be
found herein.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
112, Sewing, subclasses 78+ for apparatus for embroidering
textile products and subclass 475.18+ for methods of
embroidery.
Subclass:
165
This subclass is indented under subclass 140. Method or
apparatus wherein (a) a thread interlaced textile structure
of indeterminate length, made in a manner provided for in
some other textile manufacturing class, is conditioned in a
manner not specifically provided for in said class, or (b) a
thread interlaced textile structure of indeterminate length
or some component member thereof is conditioned in a manner
not elsewhere provided for.
(1) Note. The conditioning can occur prior to or subsequent
to the interlacing step. Thus, for example, a patent claiming
treating a thread of a woven product prior to the weaving
operation in a manner not provided for in Class 139 would be
placed in this class (28).
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
112 for subsequent treatment of a needled, nonwoven textile
article or structure.
122 for subsequent treatment of a compressively manipulated,
nonwoven textile article or structure.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
8, Bleaching and Dyeing; Fluid Treatment and Chemical
Modification of Textile and Fibers, appropriate subclass for
the treatments of that class, per se, or combined with a
broadly recited textile operation.
66, Textiles: Knitting, subclasses 147+ for treatment of a
textile product while on a knitting machine.
139, Textiles: Weaving, subclasses 291+ for treatment of a
textile product while on a loom.
427, Coating Processes, appropriate subclass for the
treatments of that class, per se, or combined with a broadly
recited textile operation.
432, Heating, subclass 8 for methods of heating a continuum
of web-like material and subclasses 59+ for heating means
including means to advance a web-like structure through the
heating means.
Subclass:
166
This subclass is indented under subclass 165. Method or
apparatus wherein the treatment involves a preparatory
conditioning of a component member of the textile structure
prior to the interlacing operation.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
112 for pretreatment of a component member of a nonwoven
textile article or structure prior to a needling operation.
122 for pretreatment of a component member of a nonwoven
textile article or structure prior to a compressive
manipulation operation.
subclasses 217+ for the conditioning of thread, per se.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
66, Textiles: Knitting, subclasses 125+ for knitting
machines having additional means to pretreat the threads or
yarn used in said machine.
Subclass:
167
This subclass is indented under subclass 165. Method or
apparatus wherein the treatment involves the application of a
gaseous or liquid medium to the thread interlaced textile
structure.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
116 for particulars of a liquid bath to effect shrinkage
during compressive manipulation of a nonwoven textile article
or structure.
178 for the fluid treatment of a sheet of warp threads.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
8, Bleaching and Dyeing; Fluid Treatment and Chemical
Modification of Textiles and Fibers, appropriate subclass for
methods of contacting a textile product with a fluid to treat
or chemically modify the textile structure.
68, Textiles: Fluid Treating Apparatus, appropriate subclass
for apparatus for contacting a textile product with a fluid
not provided for elsewhere.
423, Chemistry of Inorganic Compounds, subclass 447.1 for
methods for carbonizing fibers, fabrics, or textiles.
Subclass:
168
This subclass is indented under subclass 167. Method or
apparatus wherein application of the gaseous or liquid medium
effects elimination or disintegration of a portion of a
component member of the thread interlaced textile structure.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
164 for removal of a transitory thread component to produce
an ornamental or surface textured effect in a sewn textile
fabric.
170 for removal of a transitory thread component to divide
or open a thread-interlaced textile fabric other than by
fluid contact.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
8, Bleaching and Dyeing; Fluid Treatment and Chemical
Modification of Textiles and Fibers, subclass 114.6 for
processes of treating a textile product with a liquid to
destroy or to remove some of the fibers to produce an
ornamental effect and subclass 140, for processes of removing
impurities from textiles by destruction thereof.
156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture,
subclass 625 for processes of etching or dissolving in
general.
Subclass:
169
This subclass is indented under subclass 167. Method or
apparatus wherein the fluid contact involves (a) the
application of a finishing, protecting or enclosing layer to
the thread interlaced textile structure, or (b) the
application of a coloring thereto.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 163+ for coating or dyeing to produce an
ornamental or surface textured effect in a thread-interlaced
textile fabric.
subclasses 178+ for coating or dyeing of thread in the form
of a warp sheet.
218 for coating or dyeing a thread-interlaced textile
article or fabric and subsequent disassembly thereof to
produce a coated or dyed textured thread.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
8, Bleaching and Dyeing; Fluid Treatment and Chemical
Modification of Textiles and Fibers, subclasses 400-696 for
processes of dyeing textile products.
68, Textiles: Fluid Treating Apparatus, appropriate subclass
for apparatus for contacting a textile product with a fluid
not provided for elsewhere.
101, Printing, appropriate subclass for the application of a
decorative design to a textile product by an embossing or
printing technique.
118, Coating Apparatus, appropriate subclass for apparatus
for applying a coating material to a base.
427, Coating Processes, appropriate subclass for processes of
applying a coating material to a base.
Subclass:
170
This subclass is indented under subclass 165. Method or
apparatus wherein the treatment involves (a) dividing a
textile structure, or (b) opening such a structure when in
tubular form either by penetrating the structure with a
severing device or severing force or by withdrawing a strand
which is used to temporarily secure one segment or portion of
a textile structure to another.
(1) Note. "Detacking" i.e., the opening of a thread
interlaced textile structure from tubular to planar form by
removal of a draw or temporary retaining thread is included
herein as is the removal of a draw or temporary retaining
thread to separate a thread interlaced textile structure into
discrete articles or items.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
164 for removal of a transitory thread component to produce
an ornamental or surface textured effect in a sewn textile
fabric.
168 for removal of a transitory thread component in a
thread-interlaced textile fabric by fluid contact.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
29, Metal Working, subclasses 412+ for methods of obtaining
plural pieces from a unitary piece.
83, Cutting, appropriate subclass for cutting implements, per
se. Those cutting implements which either include means to
treat the raw cut edge of an interlaced textile structure in
a manner not elsewhere provided for to prevent raveling or
effect such a treatment by the very nature of the cutting
operation will be found in this class (28).
225, Severing by Tearing or Breaking, appropriate subclass
for device for and methods of severing by manually forcing
work against a fixed edge or by breaking or tearing.
Subclass:
171
This subclass is indented under subclass 165. Method or
apparatus wherein the treatment effects destruction or
disintegration of the thread interlaced textile structure by
removal of the component members thereof.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
218 for the disassembly of an article or fabric in the
production of a textured thread.
Subclass:
172.1
Warp preparing or handling:
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Method
or apparatus including either assembling threads into a sheet
of warp threads (a warp sheet) or manipulating the assembled
sheet prior to or during its insertion into a textile
fabricating apparatus.
Subclass:
172.2
With drawing or stretching:
This subclass is indented under subclass 172.1. Method or
apparatus for attenuating or elongating a warp sheet beyond
its elastic limit.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 240+ for apparatus for stretching a thread
beyond its elastic limit.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating:
Processes, subclass 288.4 for a process of stretching
running work or indefinite-length work by applying tension
thereto.
Subclass:
173
This subclass is indented under subclass 172. Method or
apparatus including removing lint or other foreign matter
from the threads of the warp sheet.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 222+ for clearing a running length of thread,
yarn or the like of undesired material.
Subclass:
174
This subclass is indented under subclass 173. Method or
apparatus wherein the lint or other foreign matter is removed
from the threads of the warp sheet by burning.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
239 for singing a running length of thread, yarn or the
like.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
26, Textiles: Cloth Finishing, subclasses 3+ for methods of
or apparatus for burning or scorching the projecting fibers
or threads of cloth.
68, Textiles: Fluid Treating Apparatus, subclass 2 for
carbonizing apparatus.
118, Coating Apparatus, subclass 47 for coating means
combined with means for subjecting either a coated surface or
a surface to be coated to a flame or fire.
427, Coating Processes, subclasses 223+ for processes of
coating wherein a coating or surface to be coated is
subjected to contact with a flame.
Subclass:
175
This subclass is indented under subclass 172. Method or
apparatus wherein either the warp sheet is compressed into a
rope-like continuum or the formed continuum is handled in a
manner not elsewhere provided for.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, subclasses 470+ for
the winding of a rope-like continuum into masses, balls, or
cylindrical packages and subclasses 472.8+ for winding
devices combined with guide means for combining a plurality
of independent strands into a single untwisted entity which
is subsequently wound upon a carrier.
Subclass:
176
This subclass is indented under subclass 175. Method or
apparatus including either winding a thread spirally around a
warp chain or removing such a spirally wound thread.
Subclass:
177
This subclass is indented under subclass 175. Method or
apparatus including the formation of the rope-like continuum
into a series of interconnected loops or stitches.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
66, Textiles: Knitting, appropriate subclass and especially
subclasses 85+ and 118 for methods and apparatus for
forming crochet stitches.
Subclass:
178
This subclass is indented under subclass 172. Method or
apparatus for applying a gas or liquid to a sheet of warp
threads to condition the same.
(1) Note. Devices or processes for applying a sizing or
dyeing compound to a warp sheet will be found herein.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
112 for needling combined with conditioning of a nonwoven
fabric or a component thereof.
122 for compressive manipulation combined with conditioning
of a nonwoven fabric or a component thereof.
167 for fluid treatment of a thread interlaced article or
fabric in a manner not provided for elsewhere.
246 for spaced, differentially driven thread stretching
apparatus having intermediate conditioning means.
261 for knife edge texturing of a running length of thread
combined with additional conditioning.
265 for stuffier box type texturing of a running length of
thread combined with additional conditioning.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
8, Bleaching and Dyeing; Fluid Treatment and Chemical
Modification of Textiles and Fibers, appropriate subclass for
processes of contacting thread with a fluid to treat or
chemically modify the same.
68, Textiles: Fluid Treating Apparatus, appropriate subclass
for apparatus for contacting a textile product with a gas or
liquid in a manner not provided for elsewhere.
118, Coating Apparatus, appropriate subclass for means for
applying a coating material to a base.
427, Coating Processes, appropriate subclass for methods of
applying a coating material to a base.
Subclass:
179
This subclass is indented under subclass 178. Method or
apparatus wherein the fluid treated sheet of warp threads is
further treated to remove excess moisture therefrom.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
34, Drying and Gas or Vapor Contact With Solids, appropriate
subclass for methods of and apparatus for the evaporation of
unwanted moisture from a solid.
Subclass:
180
This subclass is indented under subclass 179. Method or
apparatus wherein the fluid treated sheet of warp threads is
dried by a heating device which is physically spaced from the
warp sheet.
(1) Note. A carrier fluid, such as air, may be used to
transmit the heat between the heating device and the warp
sheet.
Subclass:
181
This subclass is indented under subclass 179. Method or
apparatus wherein the fluid treated sheet of warp threads is
divided or leased prior to drying.
Subclass:
182
This subclass is indented under subclass 178. Method or
apparatus wherein the warp sheet is introduced into a bath of
liquid.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
118, Coating Apparatus, subclasses 400+ for immersion or
work confining pool type coating means.
427, Coating Processes, subclass 430.1 for processes of
coating a base by immersing or partial immersing the base in
a coating material.
Subclass:
183
This subclass is indented under subclass 182. Method or
apparatus wherein the warp sheet passes between squeeze or
quetch rolls while or after it is immersed in the liquid
bath.
Subclass:
184
This subclass is indented under subclass 172. Method or
apparatus wherein the warp sheet is composed of threads of
differing color, texture or the like which are arranged in a
predetermined manner across the width of the sheet.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 214+ for similar methods and apparatus used with
Axminster tuft material.
Subclass:
185
This subclass is indented under subclass 172. Method or
apparatus wherein means are provided to perceive variations
in a characteristic which deviate from a set norm, which
means activates or regulates additional means to alter the
operation of warp preparing or handling device.
(1) Note. Those devices employing means to regulate the
speed at which a warp sheet is taken up by a beam in response
to sensed sheet tension will be found herein.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
226, Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length, subclasses
10+ for means for advancing a running length of work which
means is provided with means responsive to the condition of
the running length.
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, subclass 472.9, 479.9+,
484.8, and 484.9+ for a helical winding device having a
detector or stop and subclasses 333+ for an automated stop in
a magnetic tape or image film winding device.
Subclass:
186
This subclass is indented under subclass 185. Method or
apparatus wherein the additional means brings the operation
of the warp preparing or handling device to a halt.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
225 for stopping structure associated with clearing means
for a single strand, and see the search notes thereunder.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
139, Textiles: Weaving, subclasses 349+ for looms having
stopping means which are responsive to the condition of the
warp.
Subclass:
187
This subclass is indented under subclass 186. Method or
apparatus including electrical actuation of the stop
mechanism.
Subclass:
188
This subclass is indented under subclass 186. Method or
apparatus wherein the stopping is effected by an element
which is driven to-and-fro through a breakage connection and
wherein a thread sensing means is allowed to drop into the
path of the element to thus stop its movement when the sensed
thread is either broken or exhausted.
Subclass:
189
This subclass is indented under subclass 188. Method or
apparatus wherein the thread sensing means is mounted to
swing about an axis.
Subclass:
190
This subclass is indented under subclass 172. Method or
apparatus including (a) building up or winding an already
assembled sheet of warp threads upon a temporary storage drum
prior to winding on a warp supply package, or (b) winding a
sheet of warp threads onto a warp supply package which is to
be used on a loom or other textile machine.
Subclass:
191
This subclass is indented under subclass 190. Method or
apparatus wherein the sheet of warp threads is assembled on
the reeling or beaming means by winding successive narrow
segments of warp threads in a side by side fashion until a
warp sheet of desired width is formed.
Subclass:
192
This subclass is indented under subclass 190. Method or
apparatus including winding a sheet of warp threads for
fabrication of selvages, ribbons or similar slender wares.
Subclass:
193
This subclass is indented under subclass 190. Method or
apparatus including winding a sheet of warp threads direct
from cops with automatic means to supply new cops for those
exhausted and to tie the ends of the exhausted and newly
supplied threads.
Subclass:
194
This subclass is indented under subclass 190. Method or
apparatus involving the particulars of the device for
imposing a predetermined strain upon the warp sheet as it is
wound.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, subclasses 410+ and
147+ for a tension control or brake in a winding device or
device of general use for running material.
Subclass:
195
This subclass is indented under subclass 190. Method or
apparatus wherein the beam or a warp sheet guiding means
adjacent the beam is reciprocated during winding.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, subclass 241, 242 and
273 for fishing rod type reeling devices with line traversing
means and subclasses 474.2+ and 476.7+ for line traversing
devices for use with the winding and reeling structure of
this class (242) which are not provided for elsewhere.
Subclass:
196
This subclass is indented under subclass 190. Method or
apparatus wherein the threads of the warp sheet are engaged
by a member once they have been wound on the beam.
(1) Note. Devices to compress a warp sheet as it is being
wrapped on a beam are found herein.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
100, Presses, subclass 86 for presses, not provided for
elsewhere, in which material is wound on a mandrel and there
is an opposed presser roll.
Subclass:
197
This subclass is indented under subclass 196. Method or
apparatus wherein the beam is rotated by a driving device
which propels the beam by making contact with the warp sheet
being wound thereon.
Subclass:
198
This subclass is indented under subclass 190. Method or
apparatus including dividing or separating the sheet of warp
threads into segments by the insertion of separating means.
(1) Note. Examples of the separating means to be found
herein are leasing rods or cords.
Subclass:
199
This subclass is indented under subclass 198. Method or
apparatus wherein the separation of the threads is effected
by a plurality of vertically extending blade-like members
over, through or between which the threads are drawn, which
members are either shiftable relative to one another or are
so configured that the thread separation is effected.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 212+ for reeds of combs, per se, specialized for
use with a warp sheet.
Subclass:
200
This subclass is indented under subclass 190. Method or
apparatus involving the particulars of the means to propel
the beaming or reeling apparatus.
Subclass:
201
This subclass is indented under subclass 172. Method or
apparatus (a) for the insertion of a warp beam or the thread
ends of a warp sheet into a textile fabricating apparatus or
an element thereof, or (b) for the handling of a warp beam
and the threaded textile apparatus element or the beam and
the thread ends of the warp sheet preparatory to their
insertion into the textile apparatus.
(1) Note. The term "textile fabricating apparatus" as used
herein embraces any device using an exhaustible supply of
warp threads in the manufacture of a textile product, as for
example, a weaving loom, a warp knitting machine, etc.
Subclass:
202
This subclass is indented under subclass 201. Method or
apparatus including choosing and segregating a warp thread
from a body or sheet of unseparated warp threads for
presentation to a thread engaging element which subsequently
operates upon it.
Subclass:
203.1
Drawing:
This subclass is indented under subclass 201. Method or
apparatus including threading or pulling in of warp threads
through the textile apparatus or elements thereof.
Subclass:
204
This subclass is indented under subclass 203. Method or
apparatus wherein the device which is threaded comprises a
comb-like thread guide which has a plurality of flat metal
blades or thin wires and wherein a mechanism is provided for
automatically inserting the threads of the warp sheet between
the blades or wires.
Subclass:
205
This subclass is indented under subclass 203. Method or
apparatus wherein the device to be threaded is the thread
guide of either a shed manipulating mechanism or a thread
sensing means which guide has an eyelet therein and which
guide is moved prior to, during or after the thread has been
inserted through the eyelet.
Subclass:
206
This subclass is indented under subclass 205. Method or
apparatus wherein a substantially flat strip having a thread
receiving eyelet or aperture therethrough is moved away from
an adjacent strip to facilitate the threading thereof.
Subclass:
207
This subclass is indented under subclass 206. Method or
apparatus wherein the strip is twisted to align the eyelet or
aperture with a thread inserting instrumentality.
Subclass:
207.1
Hand implement:
This subclass is indented under subclass 203.1. Method or
apparatus wherein the threading or pulling in its
accomplished with the aid of a manually manipulable device or
tool (e.g., a reed hook).
Subclass:
208
This subclass is indented under subclass 201. Device wherein
means are provided a) for holding the free ends of the warp
threads secure prior to their insertion into the textile
fabricating apparatus, or b) for supporting or manipulating a
threaded reed, heddle, or the like prior to its insertion
into the textile fabricating apparatus.
Subclass:
209
This subclass is indented under subclass 201. Method or
apparatus including joining the individual thread ends of a
substantially exhausted warp sheet to the corresponding
thread ends of a new warp sheet.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture,
subclass 49 for methods of joining at least two electrical
conductors or their coverings end-to-end; subclasses 157+ for
methods of adhesively joining laminae of indeterminate length
in an end-to-end relationship; and subclasses 433+ for
apparatus for adhesively joining laminae in an end-to-end
relationship.
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, subclass 475.1 for
bobbin and cop winders with reserve thread uniting means.
Subclass:
210
This subclass is indented under subclass 209. Method or
apparatus including uniting the thread ends by twirling them
together to form interlocking convolutions.
Subclass:
211
This subclass is indented under subclass 209. Method or
apparatus including uniting the thread ends by knotting them
together.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
289, Knots and Knot Tying, appropriate subclass for methods
of and apparatus for joining ropes, threads, yarns and the
like by tying their adjacent ends together.
Subclass:
212
This subclass is indented under subclass 172. Apparatus
consisting of a subcombination of a warp preparing apparatus
particularized for separating the individual threads of a
warp sheet from one another.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
199 for reeds or combs used to lease a warp sheet when in
combination with a warp reeling or beaming apparatus or
method.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
139, Textiles: Weaving, subclass 192 for reed type beat-up
means.
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, subclasses 157+ for a
thread guide, subclasses 548+ for a convolute winding machine
with a particular guide, subclass 566 for an unwinding
machine with a particular guide, and subclasses 615+ for an
elongated material guide not classifiable elsewhere.
Subclass:
213
This subclass is indented under subclass 212. Apparatus
wherein the individual thread segregating elements of the
thread guide are mounted for movement towards or away from
each other.
Subclass:
214
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Method
or apparatus for setting or winding colored tuft-pile threads
into an arrangement suitable for weaving an Axminster carpet
and the like.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
184 for pattern setting of tapestry warp threads.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
112, Sewing, subclass 80.01 for tufting type sewing
apparatus.
139, Textiles: Weaving, subclasses 2+ for looms having pile
tufting means.
Subclass:
215
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Method or
apparatus for facilitating threading of the tuft-pile threads
through tubes of a loom tube frame.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
216 for threading of the tuft tubes, per se.
Subclass:
216
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Method
or apparatus for facilitating threading of tuft-pile threads
through tubes of a loom tube frame such as is utilized in an
Axminster or similar carpet loom.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
215 for combined pattern setting and tuft- tube threading.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
112, Sewing, subclass 80.01 for tufting type sewing
apparatus.
139, Textiles: Weaving, subclasses 2+ for looms having pile
tufting means.
Subclass:
217
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Method
or apparatus involving operations to place slender, elongate
textile material composed of fibers or of filaments strands,
yarns and the like, hereafter termed "thread", of individual
or multiple components, in better marketable condition or to
prepare such material for subsequent fabrication into
articles or fabrics.
(1) Note. The term thread as used herein is intended to
include sliver, roving and the like.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
112 for treatment, inclusive of thread finishing, of a
component member of a nonwoven textile article or structure
prior to a needling operation.
122 for treatment, inclusive of thread finishing, of a
component member of a nonwoven textile article or structure
prior to a felting operation.
166 for treatment, inclusive of thread finishing, of a
component member prior to fabrication into a thread
interlaced fabric.
subclasses 178+ for the fluid treatment of a running length
of a plurality of threads in the form of a warp sheet.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
8, Bleaching and Dyeing; Fluid Treatment and Chemical
Modification of Textiles and Fibers, appropriate subclass for
methods of bleaching and dyeing and chemical modification of
thread combined with a broadly recited textile operation
other than spinning, twisting or turning.
57, Textiles: Spinning, Twisting, and Twining, appropriate
subclass for methods of and apparatus for finishing thread
combined with spinning, twisting and twining thereof.
65, Glass Manufacturing, subclasses 376+ and 484+,
respectively, for methods of or apparatus for making a glass
filament or fiber combined with a finishing operation
therefor.
68, Textiles: Fluid Treating Apparatus, appropriate subclass
for apparatus for the fluid treatment of thread in general.
118, Coating Apparatus, appropriate subclass for apparatus
for coating thread other than in the form of a warp sheet.
264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating:
Processes, appropriate subclass for methods of finishing a
filament combined with the forming thereof and subclasses
342+ for methods of finishing a unitary thread or filament
formed of distinct, diverse extruded polymeric components
which are arranged to run the length of the thread in a side
by side fashion, e.g., a bicomponent filament, to effect
distortion thereof by differential shrinkage.
423, Chemistry of Inorganic Compounds, subclass 447.1 for
methods of carbonizing thread.
425, Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating:
Apparatus, appropriate subclass for apparatus for finishing a
filament combined with forming means therefor.
427, Coating Processes, appropriate subclass for methods of
coating thread combined with a broadly recited textile
operation.
451, Abrading, for a method of or apparatus for abrading of
thread, per se.
Subclass:
218
This subclass is indented under subclass 217. Method or
apparatus wherein thread is textured by assembly into a
textile fabric and subsequently disassembling the fabric back
into the component thread.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
171 for more disassembly of an article or fabric back to its
component thread.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
66, Textiles: Knitting, appropriate subclass for the
particulars of fabrication of thread into a knitted textile
fabric.
87, Textiles: Braiding, Netting, and Lace Making, appropriate
subclass for the particulars of fabrication of thread into a
braided textile fabric.
112, Sewing, appropriate subclass for the particulars of
fabrication of thread into a sewn textile fabric.
139, Textiles: Weaving, appropriate subclass for the
particulars of fabrication of thread into a woven textile
fabric.
Subclass:
219
This subclass is indented under subclass 217. Method or
apparatus for altering a characteristic or the physical form
of a continuously moving or traveling expanse of thread while
it is in transit from a source of supply to a take-up or
collection site.
(1) Note. This subclass is the repository for individual or
unitary thread finishing operations as, for example, the
polishing of a running length of thread by brushing, ironing,
or rubbing to smooth fibrils into the surface thereof, the
brushing or rubbing of a running length of thread to produce
upstanding fibrils on the surface thereof, the assimilating
or splicing of a running length of thread without the use of
adhesives or fusion, the condensing or shrinking of a running
length of thread without the production of coils, crimps,
crinkles or like linear distentions, etc.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 173+ for the surface modification of a running
length of a plurality of threads in the form of a warp
sheet.
Subclass:
220
This subclass is indented under subclass 219. Method or
apparatus including plural thread finishing treatments which
differ in kind, effect or purpose.
(1) Note. Examples of the types of different thread
finishing operations to be found herein are stretching and
texturing, texturing and opening or spreading of tow, etc.
(2) Note. Where an additional operation merely perfects or
enhances a basic thread finishing operation, e.g., heating
thread to improve texturing, either to facilitate texturing,
to retain the texture, or to fully develop the texture, the
patent is placed on the basis of the basic finishing
operation.
(3) Note. Coating or dyeing is considered as "conditioning"
and such an operation will be found with the specific type of
surface modification of the thread.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 223+ for combined diverse thread clearing
operations.
258 for combined diverse thread texturing operations.
Subclass:
221
This subclass is indented under subclass 220. Method or
apparatus wherein one of the thread finishing operations
includes passing the thread through a zone of axial
compression.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 250+ for stuffer box texturing including plug or
wad control.
subclasses 255+ for stuffer box texturing including jet
feed to plug.
subclasses 263+ for stuffer box texturing, per se.
Subclass:
222
This subclass is indented under subclass 219. Method or
apparatus for removing or assisting in the removal of
material in the nature of either an abrupt enlargement or
thickened portion, i.e., a knot or slub, or other projecting
flaws, imperfection, impurities or the like from thread.
(1) Note. This subclass is the repository for those patents
relating to the surface clearing of thread by single or
unitary brushing, rubbing, scraping or cutting devices which
do not form a fixed knot or slub entrapment opening of
predetermined dimension for passage of the thread
therethrough in transit to a take-up or collection site and
those patents relating to the clearing of the thread by
rubbing engagement upon itself.
Subclass:
223
This subclass is indented under subclass 222. Method or
apparatus including a plurality of separate, spaced or
distinct clearing sites or stations through which the thread
sequentially passes in transit to a take-up or collection
site.
Subclass:
224
This subclass is indented under subclass 223. Method or
apparatus wherein each of the clearing operations involve
transit of the thread through an opening of fixed
predetermined dimension defined by the exterior boundaries of
an element or elements for removal of projecting surface
impurities by rubbing or scraping engagement therewith.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 232+ for clearing of thread by a unitary gap or
slot type device.
Subclass:
225
This subclass is indented under subclass 222. Method or
apparatus wherein a means for advancing a thread is rendered
idle or inoperative when a knot or slub is detected in the
thread.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 186+ for the stopping of a warp preparing or
handling operation.
242 for the stopping of a thread stretching operation.
subclasses 248+ for alteration of a thread texturing
operation, including stopping.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
19, Textiles: Fiber Preparation, subclasses 2+ for means
for mechanically isolating and for manipulating fibers
including the step of or means for causing cessation of
operation in response to some condition occurring in the
material being fed, or through a defect in the machine or its
operation.
57, Textiles: Spinning, Twisting, and Twining, subclasses 80+
for spinning or twisting machines provided with means
either manually or automatically operated by the condition of
the strand or material being operated on, as by failure,
exhaustions, too much or too little tension, undue
accumulations, etc., to facilitate or to effect the stopping
thereof.
66, Textiles: Knitting, subclasses 158+ for knitting
machines provided with means for ceasing the application of
power to the driven parts of the knitting mechanism in
response to an abnormal condition of a strand used by the
mechanism.
72, Metal Deforming, subclass 5 for randomly actuated
stopping of a metal deforming operation responsive to
termination or to the tangling of running length work.
83, Cutting, subclasses 58+ for randomly actuated stopping
means for a cutting operation.
87, Textiles: Braiding, Netting, and Lace Making, subclasses
18+ for braiding netting or lace making apparatus provided
with means, either automatically or manually controlled, for
stopping or starting the entire apparatus, inclusive of
initiation of the operation by means which sense a condition
of a strand used by the apparatus.
112, Sewing, subclasses 279+ for driving mechanism for
sewing machines which include devices to facilitate starting
and stopping.
139, Textiles: Weaving, subclasses 336+ for mechanism to
throw the loom out of operation.
200, Electricity: Circuit Makers and Breakers, subclass 61.13
for circuit makers and breakers which are controlled by
continuous or indefinite lengths of material such as motion
picture film, rope, yarn, endless belts and the like,
traveling in a given path or being wound onto or unwound from
spools or reels.
226, Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length, subclasses
10+ for a device for advancing material of indeterminate
length provided with detection means for sensing a condition
of the advancing material and with a mechanism actuated by
said detection means for regulating a part which stops, or
guides, or moves the material.
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, subclass 472.9, 479.9+,
484.8, and 484.9+ for a helical winding device having
controls responsive to material condition or the state of a
winding operation.
425, Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating:
Apparatus, subclasses 136+ for means responsive to an
abnormal condition to completely stop operation of the
machine.
Subclass:
226
This subclass is indented under subclass 222. Method or
apparatus wherein (a) the presence of a knot or slub of an
undesirable character either directly or indirectly effects
parting of the thread either by retention of the knot or slub
or an adjacent portion of the thread to break the thread at
or about the point of retention or by slicing through the
thread with a cutting member, or (b) the thread passes
against or through a rigid stripping member which cuts or
scrapes away any undesirable protruding material.
(1) Note. Since there is no structural difference between
knot or slub clearing guides and stripping guides used to
clear fibril from thread or yarn and since fibril stripping
guides will inherently act to clear a knot or slub too large
to pass therethrough, both type of guides will be found
herein.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
72, Metal Deforming, subclass 16 for a control means
energized in response to activator stimulated by a condition
sensor which is responsive to lateral dimension, e.g.,
thickness.
83, Cutting, subclass 371 for a cutting operation controlled
by detector means responsive to work indicium or
irregularity.
425, Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating:
Apparatus, subclass 141 for control means responsive to or
actuated by means sensing a condition, e.g., product
thickness, and subclass 142 wherein the control means
controlled is a severing element.
Subclass:
227
This subclass is indented under subclass 226. Method or
apparatus wherein sensing of the presence of the abrupt
enlargement or thickened portion creates or alters fluid or
electric current flow to energize or initiate a thread
parting or separating operation.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
73, Measuring and Testing, subclass 37.7 for checking
dimensions, shape or size of a moving sheet, cable or
filament or the spacing of selected portions thereof, having
at least one unit for the direct application of fluid
pressure thereto and utilizing the escape of fluid about the
specimen as an index of its dimension, shape, size or spacing
and subclasses 159+ for testing or inspecting of filaments or
strands for defects, etc., other than mere inspection or
visual examination.
83, Cutting, subclass 365 for a cutting operation controlled
by photoelectric detector means responsive to the work.
250, Radiant Energy, subclass 559.4 for a circuit responsive
to a photocell and wherein the photocell is arranged relative
to the material so that circuit provides an output indicative
of flaws in the form of voids, holes, discoloration, and the
like, and for a photocell and additional pre-photocell
structure positioned to detect imperfections.
324, Electricity: Measuring and Testing, subclasses 600+
for determining impedance, admittance and related quantities
of material, inclusive of strands.
340, Communications: Electrical, indicating subclasses 675+
for an electrical condition responsive system automatically
responsive to the feeding of a web, sheet, or work, inclusive
of a strand or thread.
356, Optics: Measuring and Testing, subclasses 430+ for
optically measuring or testing a moving web or thread for
flaws or imperfections, and subclass 238.1 for optical
inspection of cloth or thread for flaws or imperfections.
Subclass:
228
This subclass is indented under subclass 226. Method or
apparatus wherein a thread parting or separating operation is
actuated or initiated upon detection or sensing of the abrupt
enlargement or thickened portion in the thread by a movable
member resting thereon.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
83, Cutting, subclasses 66+ for a detector supported on or
urged against the work for generating a signal or impulse for
stopping of the cutting operation.
Subclass:
229
This subclass is indented under subclass 226. Method or
apparatus wherein the abrupt enlargement or thickened portion
of the thread directly engages and moves one of a pair of
opposed gap defining members in the path thereof toward the
other of such members to pinch and entrap the enlargement or
thickened portion or an adjacent thread portion of
therebetween to effect a thread parting or separating
operation.
Subclass:
230
This subclass is indented under subclass 229. Method or
apparatus wherein the knot or slub biased wedging member is
provided with a curved surface so shaped that the wedging or
pinching action on the thread increases in intensity as the
surface approaches the opposing, gap defining member.
Subclass:
231
This subclass is indented under subclass 226. Method or
apparatus wherein the presence of the abrupt enlargement or
thickened portion directs the thread along the length of an
elongated, narrow passage formed by the exterior boundaries
of an element or elements to a clamping or cutting zone for
effecting parting of the thread.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
57, Textiles: Spinning, Twisting, and Twining, subclass 353
for guiding devices provided with means to catch and hold
strands to prevent entangling when they leave the normal path
of travel or become broken, kinked, or knotted, during the
twisting operation.
Subclass:
232
This subclass is indented under subclass 226. Method or
apparatus wherein the thread passes in transit through an
opening of fixed, predetermined dimension defined by the
exterior boundaries of an element or elements which either
superficially clears the thread by rubbing or scraping
contact therewith or which effects parting of the thread by
blocking the passage of any knot or slub therethrough beyond
a predetermined size.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
224 for combined diverse clearing operations of the gap or
slot type.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, subclass 157, 548+,
566, and 615+ for a guide for elongated material.
Subclass:
233
This subclass is indented under subclass 232. Method or
apparatus including a plurality of surfaces forming at least
two distinct, alternately utilizable openings of differing
dimension or alternately utilizable surfaces capable of
varying the opening to differing dimension.
Subclass:
234
This subclass is indented under subclass 232. Method or
apparatus wherein the opening is an elongate, narrow passage
which includes notches, sharp-pointed projections, prongs and
the like for engagement with a knot, slub or the like.
Subclass:
235
This subclass is indented under subclass 232. Method or
apparatus wherein the opening is an elongate, narrow passage
and one of the exterior boundaries forming the elongate,
narrow passage is movable relative to the other such boundary
to a predetermined, desired position to alter or vary the
dimension of the elongate passage.
Subclass:
236
This subclass is indented under subclass 235. Method or
apparatus wherein one of the surfaces forming the elongate,
narrow passage is moved to an adjusted position through the
arcuate movement of a displacement means which rotates about
an axis which is not coincident with the geometric center
thereof.
Subclass:
237
This subclass is indented under subclass 235. Method or
apparatus wherein one of the surfaces forming the elongate,
narrow passage is carried by a member having a slit therein
into which a protrusion extends so that the protrusion coacts
with the slit to limit the amount that one surface can be
moved relative to the other.
Subclass:
238
This subclass is indented under subclass 235. Method or
apparatus wherein a screw-like member is provided which
coacts with a bore having a helical ridge formed therein to
effect or allow movement of the passage defining surfaces to
thereby alter passage width.
Subclass:
239
This subclass is indented under subclass 222. Method or
apparatus involving the removal of laterally projecting
fibrils, fuzz and the like from the surface of the thread by
combustion or by the application of heat thereto of
sufficient temperature or intensity to induce melting or flow
of such impurities if of a plastic nature.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
174 for singeing of a plurality of threads in the form of a
warp sheet.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
26, Textiles: Cloth Finishing, subclasses 3+ for burning or
scorching the projecting fibers or threads of cloth.
69, Leather Manufactures, subclass 7.5 for machines for
searing leather.
118, Coating Apparatus, subclass 47 for coating apparatus
including means to subject either the coated surface or the
surface to be coated to a flame or fire.
219, Electric Heating, appropriate subclass for electric
heater structure, per se, and subclass 223 for electrical
heating means adapted to contact the hair or to be used with
additional structure to transmit its heat to the hair for the
purpose of hair singeing.
427, Coating Processes, subclasses 223+ for subjecting a
coating or surface to be coated to contact with a flame.
431, Combustion, appropriate subclass for burner structure,
per se.
Subclass:
240
This subclass is indented under subclass 219. Apparatus for
attenuating or elongating a thread beyond the elastic limit
thereof.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 220+ for combined diverse thread finishing
operations, including stretching.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
8, Bleaching and Dyeing; Fluid Treatment and Chemical
Modification of Textiles and Fibers, subclass 132 for
swelling or plasticizing of artificial fibers combined with a
stretching operation.
57, Textiles: Spinning, Twisting, and Twining, subclasses
287+ and 310 for spinning, twisting or twining devices
combined with means to stretch the thread being twisted
concomitantly with or subsequent to the twisting operation
and subclass 362 for processes for making strand structures
either wholly or in part from synthetic filaments or fibers
by a combined spinning, twisting or twining and stretching
operation.
65, Glass Manufacturing, subclasses 535+ for apparatus for
glass fiber or filament formation combined with stretching or
drawing means.
66, Textiles: Knitting, subclasses 125+ for treating,
including stretching, and feeding thread to a knitting
machine.
72, Metal Deforming, subclass 376 for processes of
attenuating or elongating metal work by application of
tensile forces.
264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating:
Processes, subclasses 165+ for formation of continuous or
indefinite length filaments combined with a stretching
thereof, and subclasses 288.4+ for process of stretching by
applying tension.
425, Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating:
Apparatus, subclass 66 for combined filament forming and
stretching apparatus.
Subclass:
241
This subclass is indented under subclass 240. Apparatus
wherein means are provided which sense or perceive variations
from a set norm in thread or in machine operation and which
means activates or regulates additional means to alter
operation of the machine when such variations occur.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 185+ for means responsive to a sensed condition
in the preparation or handling of a plurality of threads in
the form of a warp sheet.
225 for means responsive to a sensed condition to stop a
thread clearing operation.
subclasses 226+ for means responsive to a knot or slub to
effect clamping or severing of thread.
subclasses 248+ for means responsive to a sensed condition
in the texturing of thread.
Subclass:
242
This subclass is indented under subclass 241. Apparatus
including means activated for initiated by the sensing means
for ceasing operation of the stretching apparatus.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 186+ for the stopping of a warp preparing or
handling operation.
225 for the stopping of a thread clearing operation.
subclasses 248+ for alteration of a thread texturing
operation, including stopping.
Subclass:
243
This subclass is indented under subclass 240. Apparatus
including means to effect irregular or discontinuous
attenuation or elongation of thread to produce variations in
the nature of abrupt enlargements, knobs, knots, slubs, thick
and thin portions and the like along the length thereof.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 252+ for producing discontinuous or irregular
coils, crimps, crinkles or like distortions in thread during
a texturing operation.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
72, Metal Deforming, subclass 260 for forming a nonuniform
cross-section or nonlinear product by extrusion and subclass
276 for producing a nonuniform product by pulling a
work-piece through a closed periphery die, e.g., rod, tube or
wire drawing.
264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating:
Processes, subclass 167 for processes of forming filaments
of irregular denier.
425, Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating:
Apparatus, subclass 66 for apparatus for forming irregular
denier by forming and stretching filaments and subclass 76
for imparting irregular denier to filaments by altering
orifice size or by varying flow rate.
Subclass:
244
This subclass is indented under subclass 240. Apparatus
wherein attenuation or elongation of thread is effected by
stretching means providing a thread path which extends along
and is transverse of the longitudinal axis of such means and
which path continuously or successively increases in length
as the thread moves therethrough and along the stretching
means.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
219 for shrinking of thread without the production of coils,
crimps, crinkles and like linear distentions by similar
apparatus having progressively decreasing lateral thread
paths.
Subclass:
245
This subclass is indented under subclass 240. Apparatus
wherein attenuation or elongation is effected by sequential
engagement of thread with revolving or rotating elements
separated along the path of travel of the thread and powered
progressively increasing rates of speed.
Subclass:
246
This subclass is indented under subclass 245. Apparatus
including means located intermediate a pair of spaced
attenuating or elongating elements for conditioning thread
therebetween to enhance the characteristics or properties
thereof or to facilitate the thread stretching operation.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 178+ for conditioning a running length of thread
in the form of a warp sheet.
261 for conditioning a running length of thread during an
asymmetric texturing operation.
subclasses 265+ for conditioning a running length of thread
during a stuffer box texturing operation.
281 for latent bulk or crimp development of a running length
of thread.
Subclass:
247
This subclass is indented under subclass 219. Method or
apparatus involving the production of interlaced or
intertwined adjacent thread portions or coils, crimps,
crinkles or like distentions in thread or portions thereof.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 220+ for combined diverse thread finishing
operations, including texturing.
286 for texturing of thread while in package form.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
8, Bleaching and Dyeing; Fluid Treatment and Chemical
Modification of Textiles and Fibers, subclass 114.5 for
fluid or chemical treatment of yarns and fabrics having yarns
or areas of different physical or chemical characteristics,
to produce crepe effects thereon and subclass 117 for
treating cellulose fibrous materials or fabrics with agents
to impart the chemical properties of wool thereto or with
acid or alkaline gelatinizing or shrinking agents without
tension, so as to cause the same to curl up and take on the
physical appearance of wool.
19, Textiles: Fiber Preparation, subclass .46 for staplizing
of continuous filamentary material combined with prior
treatment, inclusive of crimping or curling; subclasses .56+
for staplizing of continuous filamentary material combined
with other operations, inclusive of crimping or curling; and
subclass 66.1 for crimping or curling of fibers in mass or
sheet form.
57, Textiles: Spinning, Twisting, and Twining, subclass 29
for apparatus for twisting hair, grass and the like to form
yarn or cordage therefrom including means to insert
additional hard twist to cause the strand to curl or coil
about its longitudinal axis; subclasses 261+ for devices for
performing spinning, twisting or twining operations combined
with other operations, inclusive of texturing, and not
elsewhere classified; subclasses 332+ for false twist devices
for texturing strands; and subclass 362 for processes for
making textured strand structures either wholly or in part
from synthetic filaments or fibers by a spinning, twisting or
twining operation.
65, Glass Manufacturing, subclass 437, 438, and 506 for glass
filament or fiber making combined with means having functions
other than filament or fiber forming which serve to perfect
the filament or fiber for its intended purpose, e.g.,
crimping or curling.
72, Metal Deforming, appropriate subclass for method or
apparatus for deforming metal.
101, Printing, subclass 3.1 for apparatus for producing
characters or designs on surfaces by dies adapted to deform
or remove portions of the material.
132, Toilet, subclasses 210+ and 223 for crimping or
curling the hair or straightening kinky hair.
140, Wireworking, subclasses 105+ for forming crimps or
kinks in wire or wire fabrics.
156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture,
subclass 183 for methods of bonding flexible filamentary
material while in indefinite or running length with creping,
wrinkling, or crinkling and subclasses 459+ for surface
bonding means for an indefinite or running length flexible
web with bending, folding, winding and wrapping means.
162, Paper Making and Fiber Liberation, subclasses 111+ for
methods of producing a nonuniform, irregular or con-figured
web or sheet, and subclasses 280+ for apparatus for producing
or treating a creped or crinkled water or liquid laid fibrous
web.
223, Apparel Apparatus, subclasses 28+ for apparatus for
plaiting, fluting and shirring fabrics in the manufacture of
garments, ornaments therefor, and similar material.
264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating:
Processes, subclass 168 for the combination of forming and
crimping or crinkling of strands of filaments, and subclasses
280+ for reshaping running or indefinite length work.
425, Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating:
Apparatus, appropriate subclass and particularly subclass 66
for combined continuous filament forming or film casting
means with stretching means comprising product advancing
means, inclusive of crimping or curling means.
Subclass:
248
This subclass is indented under subclass 247. Method or
apparatus wherein means are provided which perceive
variations from a set norm in the thread or in machine
operation and which means activates or regulates additional
means to alter the operation of the machine when such a
variation occurs.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 185+ for means responsive to a sensed condition
in the preparation or handling of a plurality of threads in
the form of a warp sheet.
225 for means responsive to a sensed condition to stop a
thread clearing operation.
subclasses 226+ for means responsive to a knot or slub to
effect clamping or severing of thread.
subclasses 241+ for means responsive to a sensed condition
in a thread stretching operation.
Subclass:
249
This subclass is indented under subclass 248. Method or
apparatus wherein variations in sensible heat are used to
regulate the machine.
Subclass:
250
This subclass is indented under subclass 248. Method of
apparatus for texturing thread wherein the sensing means
regulates the operation of means for maintaining a desired
volume of material within a texturing chamber or box.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 264+ for plug or wad control by an in internal
chamber retarder.
Subclass:
251
This subclass is indented under subclass 250. Method or
apparatus wherein the maintenance of a desired volume within
the texturing chamber or box is effected by controlling the
relative rate of feed or withdrawal of material from the
texturing chamber or box.
Subclass:
252
This subclass is indented under subclass 247. Method or
apparatus wherein the thread is textured in a predetermined
intermittent or nonuniform manner such that the production of
coils, crimps, crinkles or like distentions is varied along
the length of the thread.
(1) Note. This subclass usually contains those devices
modified to produce a pattern or program controlled
discontinuous or irregular texture in thread. The production
of a discontinuous or irregular textured thread without
design, as by those devices which by their very nature
produce such effect in a random manner, e.g., fluid jet
texturizers utilized to interlace thread as a twist
substitute, will be found elsewhere.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
243 for producing irregular or variable denier in thread
during a stretching operation.
subclasses 271+ and particularly 275, for producing
discontinuous or irregular entangling or interlacing of
thread due to resonance in fluid jet texturing.
Subclass:
253
This subclass is indented under subclass 252. Method or
apparatus wherein a means is provided for moving either the
strand to be textured or the means to effect texturing
towards or away from each other such that the strand and the
texturing device alternately engage and disengage in a
rhythmic fashion.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
280 for relative movement between reciprocating sinkers and
a running length thread to effect texturing.
Subclass:
254
This subclass is indented under subclass 247. Method or
apparatus wherein texturing is effected by impinging thread
against an object by a fluid stream.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 262+ for texturing thread against an impacting
surface by other than a fluid jet.
subclasses 271+ for particulars of the fluid jet.
289 for feeding thread against a deflecting surface during
packaging.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating:
Processes, subclass 309 for spraying or flinging molding
material against a shaping surface.
Subclass:
255
This subclass is indented under subclass 254. Method or
apparatus wherein the object against which the thread
impinges is a wad of previously delivered processed thread.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 263+ for impacting thread against a plug or wad
thereof by other than a jet feed.
Subclass:
256
This subclass is indented under subclass 255. Method or
apparatus wherein the wad of previously processed thread is
engaged and advanced by forwarding element or surface such
that it moves away from the point of impingement.
Subclass:
257
This subclass is indented under subclass 254. Method or
apparatus wherein thread is impinged against a moving object
which advances the axially compressed thread mass away from
the point of impingement.
Subclass:
258
This subclass is indented under subclass 247. Method or
apparatus wherein thread is subjected to a plurality of
different types of distorting or interlacing operations.
(1) Note. Latent bulk or crimp development of thread is
construed as a conditioning or perfecting operation, not a
texturing operation for this subclass.
Subclass:
259
This subclass is indented under subclass 247. Method or
apparatus wherein thread is textured by conditioning only one
side of a running length of thread or by conditioning said
side in a manner which is different from the manner in which
the other side is conditioned to thereby induce a nonuniform
molecular structure across the cross section of the thread.
Subclass:
260
This subclass is indented under subclass 259. Method or
apparatus wherein the nonuniform molecular structure of the
thread is induced by passing the thread over a sharp
surface.
Subclass:
261
This subclass is indented under subclass 260. Method or
apparatus wherein thread is subjected to a conditioning
operation before or after passing over the sharp surface
either to prepare the thread for texturing or to alter or
enhance a characteristic or property of the thread.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 178+ for conditioning a running length of thread
in the form of a warp sheet.
246 for conditioning a running length of thread during a
stretching operation.
subclasses 265+ for conditioning a running length of thread
during a stuffer box texturing operation.
281 for conditioning a running length of thread to develop
latent bulk or crimp.
Subclass:
262
This subclass is indented under subclass 247. Method or
apparatus wherein texturing is effected by subjecting thread
to compression along its longitudinal axis to induce crimps,
folds and the like therein.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 254+ for axial compression of thread by jet feed
thereof against an impact surface.
subclasses 289+ for axial compression of thread against a
deflecting surface during packaging.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
26, Textiles: Cloth Finishing, subclass 18.6 for shrinking
fabric by compacting or compressing the thread components
thereof.
Subclass:
263
This subclass is indented under subclass 262. Method or
apparatus wherein the axial compression is effected by the
impingement of the thread against a mass of previously
processed thread which is formed into a plug or wad within a
thread confining chamber.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
221 for combined diverse thread finishing operations,
including stuffer box texturing.
subclasses 250+ for stuffer box texturing including plug or
wad control.
subclasses 255+ for stuffer box texturing including jet
feed to plug.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
8, Bleaching and Dyeing; Fluid Treatment and Chemical
Modification of Textiles and Fibers, subclass 152 for
processes of feeding continuously moving warps, open width
fabrics or ropes by pleating, plaiting or folding them into a
treating liquid receptacle.
26, Textiles: Cloth Finishing, subclass 21 for continuous
web fulling machines of the pleating type.
68, Textiles: Fluid Treating Apparatus, subclasses 177+ for
web or rope pleating in a fixed liquid receptacle.
226, Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length, subclass
118.1, for plural material moving means with intermediate
storage.
Subclass:
264
This subclass is indented under subclass 263. Method or
apparatus including means intermediate the entrance and exit
of the thread confining chamber to impede the passage of the
thread plug or wad therethrough.
Subclass:
265
This subclass is indented under subclass 263. Method or
apparatus wherein thread is subjected to a conditioning
operation before, after or during the axial compression
either to prepare the thread for texturing or to alter or
enhance a characteristic or property thereof.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 178+ for conditioning a running length of thread
in the form of a warp sheet.
246 for conditioning a running length of thread during a
stretching operation.
261 for conditioning a running length of thread in an
asymmetric texturing operation.
Subclass:
266
This subclass is indented under subclass 265. Method or
apparatus wherein the conditioning operation occurs after the
thread has passed through the thread confining chamber.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
281 for conditioning a running length of thread to develop
latent bulk or crimp.
Subclass:
267
This subclass is indented under subclass 265. Method or
apparatus wherein a gas or liquid contacts the plug or wad
while in transit through the thread confining chamber.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
249 for control means responsive to a sensed condition to
alter the temperature of a fluid medium being applied to the
chamber plug.
Subclass:
268
This subclass is indented under subclass 263. Method or
apparatus involving the particular structure of the means for
forwarding the thread into the confining chamber.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
251 for alteration in the feeding of thread to the stuffer
box to maintain plug or wad control.
Subclass:
269
This subclass is indented under subclass 268. Method or
apparatus involving the particular structure of opposed,
rotary elements which forward the thread passing therebetween
directly into the confining chamber or the supporting means
therefor, inclusive of ancillary means associated therewith.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
226, Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length, subclasses
181+ for constructional details of a rotary pinch pair.
Subclass:
270
This subclass is indented under subclass 269. Method or
apparatus involving the particular structure of the ancillary
means for directing or guiding the thread in a sinusoidal or
zigzag path, such that the point at which the thread contacts
the rotary elements is constantly shifted back and forth
across the width of said rotary elements prior to the entry
thereof into the confining chamber.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, subclass 472.2 and
476.7+ for a traverse mechanism in a helical winding machine
and subclasses 397.2+ for a traverse mechanism in a reeling
device.
Subclass:
271
This subclass is indented under subclass 247. Method or
apparatus wherein texturing of the thread is effected by the
turbulence generated from a gaseous or liquid stream applied
thereto.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 254+ for fluid jet feeding of thread against an
impact surface.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
57, Textiles: Spinning, Twisting, and Twining, subclasses 3+
and 362 for apparatus and methods, respectively, for
producing a composite yarn by fluid apparatus and methods,
respectively, for splicing thread by fluid current; and
subclasses 332+ for false-twisting devices utilizing fluid
current.
226, Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length, may include
a nominal recitation of a supply or take-up coil (e.g., less
than a support for such a coil or a cooperative relationship
between a tension or exhaust detector and reel driving or
reel stopping means, etc.), subclass 7 for a process of or
subclasses 97.1+ for an apparatus using fluid current to
advance the material.
Subclass:
272
This subclass is indented under subclass 271. Method or
apparatus for facilitating or initiating string-up of the
fluid jet.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
268 for threading of a stuffer box texturing device.
Subclass:
273
This subclass is indented under subclass 271. Method or
apparatus wherein the turbulence is induced by passing the
thread and fluid through an inhibiting orifice connecting a
converging entrance passageway with a diverging exit
passageway or connecting a high pressure zone with a low
pressure, thread bulking or expansion zone usually within the
fluid jet.
Subclass:
274
This subclass is indented under subclass 271. Method or
apparatus wherein the turbulence is induced by projecting a
fluid stream through or against the thread at a right angle
to the longitudinal axis thereof.
Subclass:
275
This subclass is indented under subclass 274. Method or
apparatus wherein a recess is positioned opposite the point
of entry of the fluid stream for receiving and altering the
flow characteristics of the fluid after passage of the same
through or against the thread to thus modify the degree of
turbulence to which the thread is subjected.
(1) Note. Such chambers are usually provided to prevent
disorderly secondary gas currents from interfering with
thread entanglement by the jet.
Subclass:
276
This subclass is indented under subclass 274. Method or
apparatus wherein the turbulence is induced by projecting
fluid streams against opposite sides of the thread.
Subclass:
277
This subclass is indented under subclass 247. Method or
apparatus wherein texturing is effected by subjecting the
thread to repetitive mechanical impacts or shocks along the
length thereof.
Subclass:
278
This subclass is indented under subclass 247. Method or
apparatus wherein texturing is effected by engagement of the
thread with mechanical means which transversely deforms the
thread into a patterned nonlinear configuration, the shape of
which is determined by the profile of the mechanical
deforming means.
Subclass:
279
This subclass is indented under subclass 278. Method or
apparatus wherein the texturing is effected by passing the
thread between interdigitated or interlocked moving elements
which forward and mechanically shape the thread passing
therebetween.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
19, Textiles: Fiber Preparation, subclass 66.2 for methods
of or apparatus for crimping fibers in mass or sheet form.
72, Metal Deforming, subclass 196 for an orbitally-moving
tool face moving in a circular orbit cooperating with a
complementary, e.g., conjugate, tool face in the deformation
of metal.
156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture,
subclasses 200+, for methods of bending or reshaping running
or continuous length work combined with surface bonding or
assembly therefor and subclasses 461+, for means for
longitudinally bending an indefinite or running length web
combined with surface bonding means or assembly means
therefor.
264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating:
Processes, subclasses 286+ for methods of corrugating
running or indefinite length work.
425, Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating:
Apparatus, subclasses 369+ for means corrugating a
preform.
Subclass:
280
This subclass is indented under subclass 279. Method or
apparatus wherein the texturing is effected by deflecting
elements which are reciprocally mounted in a support and
which each coact with an aligned thread receiving recess into
which the thread is displaced by the deflecting elements.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
66, Textiles: Knitting, subclasses 104+ for particulars of
sinkers or web holders in the knitting of thread into
fabric.
Subclass:
281
This subclass is indented under subclass 247. Method or
apparatus wherein the texturing is effected by developing or
releasing internal strains or stresses in the thread to cause
nonlinear deformation.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
103 for fiber entangling and interlocking by latent bulk or
crimp development in a nonwoven article or structure.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating:
Processes, subclasses 342+ for treating a shaped or treated
article, inclusive of thread, to decrease the surface area
thereof.
Subclass:
282
This subclass is indented under subclass 219. Method or
apparatus for effecting lateral distention, expansion or
separation of a condensed or grouped number of parallel
continuous filaments by flattening out and forcing apart the
component members thereof.
(1) Note. Included herein are opening or spreading
operations performed on tows of crimped or textured
continuous filaments which, in addition to expanding and
widening the tow, effect level-ing, dephasing or
deregistering of the crimps throughout the width of the tow
band or sheet to improve the characteristics thereof.
(2) Note. Ancillary functions of the opening or spreading
operation include the removal of folds or twist from the tow
imposed therein by prior processing.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 103+ for rearrangement of a tow into a coherent,
entangled unitary nonwoven web.
213 for an expansible thread comb or guide for altering the
width of a sheet of threads in the form of a warp.
subclasses 220+ for tow opening or spreading combined with
another diverse thread finishing operation.
subclasses 271+ for fluid jet texturing, i.e., bulking or
crimping of a tow.
subclasses 287+ for opening or separating thread in hank or
skein form.
Subclass:
283
This subclass is indented under subclass 282. Method or
apparatus wherein the opening or spreading of the tow is
assisted or effected by a gaseous or liquid stream which
causes the individual component, continuous filaments to
separate and move apart to effect flattening and widening of
the tow.
(1) Note. Fluid tow opening devices are commonly referred to
in the art as "banding jets".
Subclass:
284
This subclass is indented under subclass 217. Method or
apparatus including the finishing of a package or unit of
wound thread composed of overlapping layers of cylindrical
configuration or form, usually supported by an internal
flangeless core.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 290+ for the formation of thread into a wound
package involving more than mere winding.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
8, Bleaching and Dyeing; Fluid Treatment and Chemical
Modification of Textiles and Fibers, subclasses 155+ for
manipulative fluid treatment of wound yarn packages.
29, Metal Working, appropriate subclass for removal of the
internal supporting core of a thread package, inclusive of
the replacement thereof with another differing supporting
core, i.e., a perforate or porous core or spring, for dyeing
purposes.
68, Textiles: Fluid Treating Apparatus, subclass 8 for gas,
steam or mist treating of a textile on a cylinder and
subclasses 150, 189, and 198 for fluid treating devices for
wound packages wherein the liquid flows axially of the
package or holder.
Subclass:
285
This subclass is indented under subclass 284. Method or
apparatus wherein the thread finishing operation includes the
application of heat or a heated gaseous or liquid medium to
the thread package or unit to alter or enhance the
characteristics thereof or to effect drying or setting
thereof.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 118+ for conditioning of a tampon.
Subclass:
286
This subclass is indented under subclass 285. Method or
apparatus wherein the thermal conditioning causes or effects
contraction or reduction in length of the thread of which the
package or unit is composed, inclusive of the production of
crimps, crinkles and the like in the thread.
Subclass:
287
This subclass is indented under subclass 217. Method or
apparatus including the finishing of a bound, collapsible and
coreless, wound thread unit having a multiplicity of
superposed, elongate loops in parallel relation to each
other.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
291 for the formation of thread into a hank or skein
involving more than mere winding.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
8, Bleaching and Dyeing; Fluid Treatment and Chemical
Modification of Textiles and Fibers, subclass 155.2 for
manipulative fluid treatment of skeins, cakes or cheeses.
57, Textiles: Spinning, Twisting, and Twining, subclasses 25+
for apparatus for twisting determinate lengths of strands
by rotating one or both ends.
68, Textiles: Fluid Treating Apparatus, subclass 149 for
liquid flow type treating devices having a rotatable skein
supporting stick; subclasses 159+ for movable carrier in vat
type treating devices having a skein carrying stick or frame;
subclass 188 for fixed liquid receptacle type treating
devices wherein sticks are provided for supporting skeins;
and subclass 206 for liquid applying tricklers and sprinklers
with skein supporting sticks.
Subclass:
288
This subclass is indented under subclass 287. Method or
apparatus wherein the hank or skein is continuously or
intermittently moved about on internal member suspending or
sustaining same.
Subclass:
289
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Method
or apparatus for forming a unit of thread of desired or
determinate length portion into an article of commerce in a
manner not provided for elsewhere.
(1) Note. Devices for forming units of thread into folds or
coils, per se, e.g., plaiters will be found herein.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 175+ for the formation of a warp sheet into
rope-like, continuous package form.
subclasses 217+ for the finishing of a thread package in
general.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
19, Textiles: Fiber Preparation, subclasses 157+ for the
packaging of silver.
53, Package Making, appropriate subclass for depositing
thread, yarn or the like, into a container which will be
subsequently removed from the packaging apparatus, and
subclasses 396+ and 582+ for making a package by encircling
the contents with a cover material in one direction only
while leaving the contents exposed on two sides or ends,
where there is no thread finishing operation combined with
the packaging operation. For a further statement of the line
between Class 53 and this class (28) see the (2) Note,
section IV in the class definition of Class 53.
57, Textiles: Spinning, Twisting, and Twining, appropriate
subclass for combined spinning and packaging of thread.
65, Glass Manufacturing, subclasses 477+, especially subclass
481 for glass fiber or filament making combined with
winding.
100, Presses, subclass 5 for binding combined with winding
or folding; subclass 40 for pressing methods combined with
winding or folding; and subclasses 76+ for pressing apparatus
combined with means for winding or folding a sheet, web or
stand.
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, appropriate subclass
for winding and reeling of thread.
427, Coating Processes, subclasses 177+ for a coating
process combined with winding, balling, rolling or coiling.
Subclass:
290
This subclass is indented under subclass 289. Method or
apparatus wherein the formation of the thread unit is
effected by looping, winding or wrapping thread of a desired
or determinate length portion about preceding coils, layers,
loops or wraps thereof, usually about an internal core.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 284+ for the finishing of a wound thread package
in the form of a bobbin, cheese or cop.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
57, Textiles: Spinning, Twisting, and Twining, subclass 2.5
for component winding devices with untwisting and separating;
subclasses 58.65+, for take-up devices for unitary multiple
twisters; subclasses 58.72+ for package control means; and
subclass 62 for winding devices for delivery twist type
twisters.
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, subclasses 470+ for a
device for helically winding thread and other elongate
material into packages; subclasses 159+ for wound packages,
per se, subclasses 118+ for bobbins and spools, per se; and
129.5 for supporters for strand material holders.
Subclass:
291
This subclass is indented under subclass 290. Method or
apparatus wherein the formation of the wound thread unit is
effected by looping, winding or wrapping thread of a desired
or determinate length portion into a multiplicity of
superposed collapsible, coreless, elongate coils or loops in
parallel relation to each other and including binding of the
resulting unit at, at least one point to retain the elongate
coils or loops in position.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 287+ for finishing of a hank or skein.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
57, Textiles: Spinning, Twisting, and Twining, subclass 362
for a process for forming an endless band by a twisting or
twining operation only.
206, Special Receptacle or Package, subclass 388 for
nonspooled filamentary material (e.g., skein).
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, subclass 472.5 for a
device for helically winding material to form a coreless
bundle of material and subclass 127 for skein holders.
Subclass:
292
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Method
or apparatus for removing thread residue from a textile
thread carrier.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
139, Textiles: Weaving, subclasses 224+ for bobbin
stripping combined with loom replenishing.
Subclass:
293
This subclass is indented under subclass 292. Method or
apparatus wherein the thread residue is removed from the
carrier by withdrawal of thread therefrom in continuous or
running length form.
Subclass:
294
This subclass is indented under subclass 293. Method or
apparatus wherein the unwinding of the thread residue from
the carrier is aided or effected by gaseous or liquid
medium.
Subclass:
295
This subclass is indented under subclass 292. Method or
apparatus wherein the thread residue is removed from the
carrier by effecting relative movement between the carrier
and a thread severing agent.
Subclass:
296
This subclass is indented under subclass 292. Method or
apparatus wherein the thread residue is removed from the
carrier by pulling, shredding or tearing the thread into
fibers of determinate, i.e., staple length.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 293+ for subsequent staplization of waste thread
unwound from a bobbin or carrier.
Subclass:
297
This subclass is indented under subclass 292. Method or
apparatus wherein a mass of the thread residue is removed as
a unit from an end of the carrier by effecting relative
sliding movement between the carrier and the thread mass.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
29, Metal Working, appropriate subclass for methods of or
apparatus for thread package core or carrier removal or
replacement by relative movement between the core or carrier
and the wound thread mass thereon.
Subclass:
298
This subclass is indented under subclass 297. Method or
apparatus wherein the removal of the residue is effected by
engagement of the thread mass with grasping means which slip
or slide the mass as a unit off the carrier during movement
of the grasping means relative to the carrier.
Subclass:
299
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Method
or apparatus commensurate with the ... involving textile
manufacturing operations not otherwise provided for.
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