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Class 140
WIREWORKING
Class Definition:
This class definition and Notes are divided into the
following sections:
Combined Wireworking; Making Articles From Wire; Applying
Wire; Assembling and Uniting Wire; Cutting Wire; Shaping
Wire; Handling Wire; Making Wire.
GENERAL STATEMENT OF CLASS SUBJECT MATTER
(1) This is the generic class of:
Assembling and uniting, shaping and/or deforming wire.
Assembling and uniting one or more lengths of wire with other
material.
Assembling and uniting plural lengths of wire.
Shaping or deforming lengths of wire by twisting, bending,
kinking and looping.
Wireworking apparatus, i.e., machines and implements.
Patents for processes are classifiable along with the
apparatus in all subclasses in this class where the
participle form is used, e.g., subclass 93 "applying wire".
However, subclasses not so limited, e.g., subclass 1
"combined machines" have no process patents therein.
(2) Because certain elongated or attenuated elements, not
meeting the definition of a wire, can be both handled and
worked like wire, such working of such elements is included
in this class (140). For such apparatus combined with
nonwireworking apparatus, see Miscellaenous Notes, below.
COMBINED WIREWORKING
Note. Mere transient wireworking, solely for the purpose of
mounting or supporting the wire during nonwireworking (and
after which the wire is substantially restored to its initial
condition), combined with the nonwireworking is classified
with the nonwireworking, the transient working not being
considered wireworking for this class. (See References to
This Class, and References to Other Classes, below.)
MAKING ARTICLES FROM WIRE
(1) Note. The making of textile-like fabrics from wire is
classified both in this class (140) and in various textile
classes. When the process of making includes a wire-working
operation, classification is generally in this class (140),
where only textile-like operations are involved,
classification is generally in the various textile classes
(See References to This Class, and References to Other
Classes, below.)
(2) Note. The winding or wire on forms or frames (i.e., as a
template) is found in this class (140), when the article made
does not include the template (or core) as a part thereof.
The making of an electric lamp or electric space discharge
device electrode, whether or not the core remains with the
wound material as a part of the electrode, will be classified
elsewhere in this class. Other winding of wire will be found
in the class for Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding (See
References to This Class, and References to Other Classes,
below.)
APPLYING WIRE
For apparatus and processes for applying wire and for
miscellaneous wireworking implements, see References to This
Class, below. Also see References to Other Classes, below.
ASSEMBLING AND UNITING WIRE
Uniting wires by soldering, welding and brazing will be found
in this class (140), when peculiarly related to wireworking.
The class of Metal Fusion Bonding is generic to bonding of
metal by a metallurgical bond and includes welding, brazing
and soldering, except that electric bonding apparatus and
methods will be found in the class of Electric Heating, (See
References to Other Classes, below.)
CUTTING WIRE
See References to Other Classes, below, for specific class
references for cutting wire.
SHAPING WIRE
Forging or swaging of wire is classified in Class 72, Metal
Deforming. Plastic deformation of metal wire and wire-like
material will be found in both this class (140) and Class 72,
which provides residually for any plastic metal-working
operation, such as straightening, corrugating, stretching,
coiling, drawing, rolling, etc., which does not involve
assembly. Appropriate subclasses in Class 72 must therefore
be investigated in connection with any plastic metal-shaping
operation or apparatus. For instance, subclass 302 provides
for linearly stretching a workpiece between two end clamps,
and subclass 138 provides for a method of or an apparatus for
deflectingly deforming metal into a conical spring element.
Shaping wire by working it (other than by cutting) will also
be found in certain functional or art classes; see the
"SEARCH CLASS" notes below.
Twisting of wire will be found in this class, subclass 149,
and in Class 72; see the paragraph on forging or swaging of
wire in this section, above. For intertwisting of wire, see
sections on Making Articles from Wire and Assembling and
Uniting Wire.
HANDLING WIRE
For winding of wire see (2) Note in Making Articles from
Wire, above. Otherwise, see Refernces to Other Classes
below.
MAKING WIRE
The making of wire is not in Class 140. See References to
Other Classes, below.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
Certain subclasses in this class (140) have subject matter
which is also classified in other main classes. Whether such
subject matter constitutes wireworking for this class, so
that such subject matter combined with nonwire-working
apparatus will be classified in this class (140), in the
subclass for Combined Machines, depends upon the status of
the art. See the sections above for Making Articles from
Wire, Assembling and Uniting Wire, and Shaping Wire.
For wire stock, see References to Other Classes, below, the
class of Stock Material or Miscellaneous Articles.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1 and see Miscellaneous Notes, above.
1 for wireworking apparatus combined with nonwireworking
apparatus.
subclasses 3+ for processes and apparatus for manufacturing
fabrics by wireworking operations, and see Making Articles
From Wire, (1) Note, above.
subclasses 71+ and see the Notes thereto for processes and
apparatus for manufacturing articles. (Making Articles From
Wire).
71.5 for making an electric lamp or electric space discharge
device electrode, whether or not the core remains with the
wound material as a part of the electrode. (Making Articles
From Wire).
92.1 for winding or wire on forms or frames (i.e., as a
template) when the article made does not include the template
(or core) as a part thereof, (see (2) Note, above, Making
Articles From Wire).
93 for apparatus and processes for applying wire. (Applying
Wire)
subclasses 111+ for joining wire, and see Miscellaneous
Notes, below. (Assembling and Uniting Wire)
123 for miscellaneous wireworking implements. (Applying
Wire)
92.1 and 117+, for coiling of wire for joining and subclass
124 for an implement therefor. (Shaping Wire)
123.5 for an implement for stretching wire. (Shaping Wire)
subclasses 139+ and 147, for straightening of wire.(Shaping
Wire)
149 for twisting of wire, and see the note in Shaping Wire,
above.
REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
29, Metal Working, subclasses 592+ for wireworking
processes combined with nonwireworking processes. (Combined
Wireworking)
29, Metal Working, subclasses 4+ and 10. (Assembling and
Uniting Wire)
29, Metal Working, subclasses 33+ for apparatus for making
wire by combining two or more metal working steps separately
classified. (Making Wire)
29, Metal Working, subclasses 700+ and 400.1+, and see the
Notes thereto for processes and apparatus of assembly. See
also subclasses 432+ for a method of driving a wire staple
into work either to assemble the staple to the work or to
join two workpieces. (Making Articles From Wire)
30, Cutlery, and see the Notes thereto for cutting
implements, per se adapted for cutting wire. (Cutting Wire)
57, Textiles: Spinning, Twisting, and Twining, for twisting
of wire by a textile-like process, especially for the making
of wire rope, particularly subclass 9 and 311 for wire
preforming or shaping prior to twisting into rope form, and
subclass 362 for wire rope making methods involving twisting,
and see (10) Note, above. Making Articles From Wire.
59, Chain, Staple, and Horseshoe Making, subclasses 1+ for
chain making, and subclasses 71+ for staple making. (Making
Articles From Wire)
72, Metal Deforming, appropriate subclasses for any plastic
metal-shaping operation not involving assembly, and see the
note in Shaping Wire, above for twisting of wire.
72, Metal Deforming, appropriate subclasses for making wire
by plastically reshaping a metal work piece. See subclasses
199+ for rolling, 253.1+ for extruding, and 274+ for
drawing.(Making Wire)
72, Metal Deforming, appropriate subclasses for a method of
or an apparatus for plastically shaping metal and including a
step of or means for handling or guiding the work or product.
(Handling Wire)
75, Specialized Metallurigical Processes, Compositions for
use Therein, Consolidated Metal Powder Compositions, and
Loose Metal Particulate Mixtures, subclasses 200+ for
making wire by powder metallurgy.(Making Wire)
81, Tools, appropriate subclasses for special hand tools for
applying wire. (Applying Wire)
82, Turning, and see the Notes thereto for turning wire.
(Cutting Wire)
83, Cutting, appropriate subclasses for cutting wire or other
strand material. (Cutting Wire)
87, Textiles: Braiding, Netting, and Lace Making, appropriate
subclasses for braiding of wire by a textile-like process.
See Making Articles From Wire, (1) Note, above.
100, Presses, subclasses 1+ for binding by means of wire.
(Applying Wire)
139, Textiles: Weaving, appropriate subclasses for weaving of
wire generally by a textile-like process. See Making Articles
From Wire, (1) Note, above.
148, Metal Treatment, appropriate subclasses for processes of
metal wireworking in combination with a significant heat
treatment to modify or maintain the internal physical
property (i.e., microstructure) or chemical property of the
metal. See the Class 148 definition to determine what
constitutes significant heat treatment. (Combined
Wireworking)
156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture,
appropriate subclasses for apparatus and method for
laminating in general and see especially subclasses 166+
and 433+ for uniting indefinite length strands. See also
subclasses 47+ as the generic home for processes of making
indefinite length conductors not elsewhere provided for.
(Assembling and Uniting Wire)
164, Metal Founding, subclasses 82+ for processes of making
running or indefinite length products by continuous metal
casting and subclass 423 for apparatus for casting
wire.(Making Wire)
205, Electrolysis: Processes, Compositions Used Therein, and
Methods of Preparing the Compositions, subclass 76 for
electroforming of wire.(Making Wire)
219, Electric Heating, subclass 605 and 50+. Note especially
indented subclasses 51+, 56+ and 78.01+. (Assembling and
Uniting Wire)
226, Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length, appropriate
subclasses for methods of, and apparatus for, feeding
material without utilizing the leading or trailing ends to
effect movement of the material. (Handling Wire)
227, Elongated-Member-Driving Apparatus, subclasses 82+ for
combined apparatus for making and applying a member, e.g.,
nail. (Making Articles From Wire)
227, Elongated-Member-Driving Apparatus, appropriate
subclasses for apparatus for applying a member, e.g., staple,
to work. (Applying Wire)
228, Metal Fusion Bonding, the generic class of bonding of
metal by a metallurgical bond and includings welding, brazing
and soldering, (Assembling and Uniting Wire)
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, subclasses 430+ for
making a composite article in which an elongated material is
permanently wound onto a core. (Shaping Wire)
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, particularly subclasses
430+, and see Making Articles From Wire, (2) Note, above.
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, subclasses 360+, 430+,
and 470+ for wire winding or loop forming for a storage coil.
(Handling Wire)
264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating:
Processes, for processes, within the class definition, for
molding or shaping plastic substances. For forming indefinite
length filament like articles which may be electrical
conductors see subclass 171.1, especially subclasses 171.26+,
and for other electrical devices, see subclasses 29.1+ and
104+, in particular.(Making Wire)
254, Implements or Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling
Force, subclass 134.3 for wire or strand placing. (Applying
Wire)
408, Cutting by Use of Rotating Axially Moving Tool, for the
cutting of wire by a tool that twines about an axis and moves
along that axis toward a workpiece with no additional motion
during operation. (Cutting Wire)
409, Gear Cutting, Milling, or Planing, for milling or
planing of wire. (Cutting Wire)
425, Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating:
Apparatus, appropriate subclasses especially subclasses 67+
for plastic filament former comprising an immersed shaping
orifice discharging directly into a liquid bath, and subclass
461 for a filament spinning nozzle, per se; see the search
notes thereunder. (Making Wire)
451, Abrading, for grinding wire. (Cutting Wire)
470, Threaded, Headed Fastener, or Washer Making: Process and
Apparatus appropriate subclasses for making and/or heading
nails, screws and bolts by forging or swaging. (Shaping
Wire)
470, Threaded, Headed Fastener, or Washer Making: Process and
Apparatus subclasses 121+ for making wire nails. (Making
Articles From Wire)
470, Threaded, Headed Fastener, or Washer Making: Process and
Apparatus, subclasses 8+ for methods of threading wire and
57+ for machines for threading wire except as provided for in
Class 408. (Cutting Wire)
470, Threaded, Headed Fastener, or Washer Making: Process and
Apparatus, subclasses 164+ and the notes thereto for
machines for feeding discrete lengths of wire. (Handling
Wire)
483, Tool Changing, generally for a process or apparatus
including a tool transfer means combined with a tool support
or storage means. (Combined Wireworking)
GLOSSARY:
The definitions of terms in the class definitions of Class
29, Metal Working, apply in this class unless otherwise
noted.
WIRE
A wire (for the purpose of this class (140), is an elongated
or attenuated metal or metal-based material, wherein all the
diameters of the cross-sectional area taken at right angles
to its length are of substantially the same dimension, and
the cross-sectional area is small enough to allow substantial
flexibility or resiliency and permit bending or flexing
without substantial metal flow. A wire may be stranded,
cored, coated or covered.
WIREWORKING
The term wireworking includes the shaping and deforming of
wire and/or the assembly and uniting of wire with wire or
nonwire material by twisting, bending, kinking, looping,
etc.
SUBCLASSES
Subclass:
1
Inventions in the working of wire in which other features not
specific to wire-working are claimed in combination therewith
or such inventions, as do not come within the terms of the
subclasses hereinafter defined because of the inclusion of
elements, combinations, or features not in themselves
classifiable in such subclasses, but usually in some other
class. Also inventions in wireworking or in elements of
combinations specific to this class in combination with
features or means specific to metal casting, swaging,
welding, metal-rolling, nailing, stapling, painting, etc., of
wire, or at the joint between a wire and a nonwire since in
these instances the class of WireWorking is made superior.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
29, Metal Working, subclasses 33+ and see the Notes
thereto, for combined machines, and subclasses 592+ and see
the Notes thereto, for combined methods including a step of
wireworking, and see Miscellaneous Notes to the class
definition of this class (140).
483, Tool Changing, subclasses 16+ for a machine tool
combined with a tool transfer means.
Subclass:
2
Miscellaneous inventions in wire-working not classifiable in
any of the other subclasses of this class.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
29, Metal Working, subclass 90.01 and 451, Abrading, for a
device for burnishing or burnishing wire.
205, Electrolysis: Processes, Compositions Used Therein, and
Methods of Preparing the Compositions, subclass 76, 77, and
138 for electrolytic methods of producing wires.
Subclass:
3
Miscellaneous fabric-making inventions not classifiable in
the subclasses hereunder. Wire-fabric making devices
classifiable in this class are divided into two main groups,
including, respectively, looms or stationary machines and
portable or field machines. Each of these groups is redivided
into other groups, including, respectively, devices for
making a mesh fabric in which continuous wire or wires are
interwoven or united with the warp wires and devices in which
the completed fabric shows separate cross wires or stays.
Devices of the latter type are classifiable under the
stay-applying group defined below.
(1) Note. Inventions in wire-fabric making classifiable in
this class are characterized by working in the wires by
twisting, coiling, or by some bending operation which is not
characteristic or usual in the ordinary weaving machines that
operate upon cotton, wool, silk, etc.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
29, Metal Working, subclasses 700+ for assembly apparatus
and 428 for methods of assembly not elsewhere classified,
e.g., subclass 243.56 for a means to join two elements by
applying a clip thereabout.
139, Textiles: Weaving, for looms for making the ordinary
straight weave all-wire fabrics.
Subclass:
4
Fabric-making machines comprising a rotary device, as a drum
or wheel, upon which the fabric wires or elements are secured
together during its rotation.
Subclass:
5
Making an all-wire fabric in which a plurality of warp or
runner strands are secured together, usually by twisting, to
form a cable, and to which the woof, stay, or cross wires are
secured.
Subclass:
6
Making an all-wire fabric having hexagonal meshes, like
chicken wire or poultry netting. In the mesh made by the
devices of this subclass the cross wires are continuous and
are not cut.
(1) Note. Search this class, the stay-applying subclasses,
for machines in which the cross wires are cut, thus forming
separate woof-wires or stays.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
87, Textiles: Braiding, Netting, and Lace Making, for
machines producing similar fabrics of wire or other strand
material but involving no wire working operation other than
strand interrelating.
Subclass:
7
Making all-wire net fabric having quadrangular or four-sided
meshes.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
4 5, for fabric making machines in which the warps or runners
are composed of a plurality of strands secured together, for
example, by twisting.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
87, Textiles: Braiding, Netting, and Lace Making, subclass 24
and indented subclasses, for machines for making similar
textile fabrics.
164, Metal Founding, subclasses 91+ and particularly
subclass 110 for processes of joining wires by metal casting
operations.
Subclass:
9
Making wire netting having diamond or V-shaped meshes, the
cross wire or wires being continuous in distinction from
those inventions for the making of diamond mesh fabric where
the wires are not continuous.
(1) Note. Search this class, the Fabric-making,
Stay-applying subclasses, for inventions involving cutting
the wires to form stays or working in separate wires as
stays.
Subclass:
10
Securing wire stays or separate cross wires to the runners,
strands, or warp wires of wire netting not classifiable in
the subclasses of this group defined below.
(1) Note. In this group are classifiable all devices wherein
the so-called "stays" are formed by cutting the cross wire at
the edges of the fabric.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
6 7, 8, and 9, for mesh-making machines employing continuous
cross or woof wires, etc.
Subclass:
11
Applying clips, tie-wires, or equivalent, whether of wire or
sheet metal, to the intersecting wires of a wire fabric and
by which they are secured together. Also magazines for clips
or feeding devices relating to all-wire fabric-making.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
53 54, 55, for clip-affixing implements.
116 for dies employed in machines for applying the wires to
intersecting wires, as in fence fabrics.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
29, Metal Working, subclasses 428+, and particularly
subclasses 505+ indented thereunder, for a process of
deformably applying a clip to work, and subclasses 700+ for
apparatus for doing the same, particularly subclass 243.56.
Subclass:
12
Making-all-wire fabric by wrapping or otherwise securing
suitable loops formed in stay wires about the strand wires.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
21
Subclass:
13
Making an all-wire quadrangular, usually square, mesh fabric
in which the cross wires or stays are composed of short
lengths each connecting a plurality of strands, usually two,
said lengths together forming a "sectional stay".
(1) Note. This subclass is intended to include all looms or
fixed machines utilizing short stays or cross wires of short
length.
Subclass:
14
Fabric-making in which suitable loops are formed in the warp
or strands, usually for the purpose of securing the stays
therein.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
22
Subclass:
15
Making fabric by wrapping or coiling the stay wires
successively around the strands, usually commencing at one of
the edge strands, and coiling the stay successively about
each runner and securing the end of the stay to the strand on
the opposite edge of the fabric.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
53 and 54, for implements employed in making fabrics in this
manner.
117 for hand tools for coiling or winding one wire about
another, as in successively wrapping a stay about the several
fence strands.
Subclass:
16
Portable machines for making all-wire netting. For example,
all machines employed in the field are classifiable in this
group.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
52 for devices adapted to be held in the hand or partially
supported by the work.
117 and indented subclasses, for devices of more general
application, as in joining wires. Subclass 117 includes all
implements for coiling one wire about another, as in
successively wrapping stays.
Subclass:
17
Portable all-wire fabric-making machines that make an
all-wire netting in which the wires employed are practically
continuous and separate or so-called stays are not separately
interwoven or secured to the strands or the cross wires or in
which the cross wire is not subsequently cut at the edge of
the fabric.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
6 and 7, for looms or stationary machines for making similar
fabrics.
Subclass:
18
Portable machines for securing separate wires or stays to the
warp, strands, or runners and not classifiable in the minor
subclasses of this group. Stay-applying machines operate to
secure separate cross wires or stays to the warp wires or
strands or the cross wires are cut at the edge of the fabric
thus forming separate stays.
Subclass:
19
Portable stay-applying machines that twist or unite a
plurality of strands together either in making and securing a
multistrand stay to the warp wires or for securing wire
stays, single or multiple, to a multistrand runner or warp.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5 for fixed machines or looms that secure stay wires to a
multistrand runner or warp.
Subclass:
21
Portable stay-applying machines that secure the stays in
place by wrapping or coiling loops suitably formed in the
stay about the strand wires.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
12 for similar features in looms.
Subclass:
22
Portable fabric-making machines that form loops or kinks in
the strands or warps and by which the stays are secured in
place, each loop usually embracing a stay.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
14 for looms having like features.
Subclass:
23
Portable fabric-making machines that secure the stays to the
strands by wrapping or coiling operations, each stay being
successively wrapped around the strands in crossing the
fabric, thus securing them in place.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
15 for looms that operate in like manner.
53 and 54, for implements employed in making fabrics in this
manner.
117 for hand tools for coiling or winding one wire about
another, as in successively wrapping a stay about the several
fence strands.
Subclass:
24
Inventions in making selvages or binding the edge strands or
in coiling or knotting the ends of the stays to the edge
strands of the fabric, and machines and attachments for, or
specific structures or combinations in, all-wire fabric
making devices.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
14 for similar features.
Subclass:
25
Inventions in or devices, looms, or stationary machines for
making a slatted wire-fabric--such as a picket or slatted
wire fence, barrel fabric, basket fabric, etc.--and not
classifiable in the minor subclasses defined below. The term
"slat" is used in a generic sense to include wood, metal,
etc., or any other material except wire.
(1) Note. Search appropriate subclasses of all-wire machines,
for machines for forming wire pickets or stays into a
fabric;
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
3 and subclasses indented under Fabric-making, All-wire, for
such similar structural features as are also characteristic
of looms.
28 see the search note for slat-and-wire fabric-weaving
machines.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
139, Textiles: Weaving.
Subclass:
26
Slat-and-wire fabric making involving the cutting of the
slats to determine lengths or trimming or shaping the same.
Subclass:
27
Slat-and-wire fabric-making machines provided with hoppers or
any type of magazine for holding, supplying, or feeding the
slats or pickets to the machine.
Subclass:
28
Slat-and-wire machines having means for forming spaces
between the slats at predetermined points by the omission of
a slat or by the prevention of slat-feeding at the proper
time. This subclass includes machines particularly adapted to
the manufacture of barrel fabric.
Subclass:
29
Machines having lifting frames or other movable carriages for
relatively and periodically placing the slats, strands, or
operating mechanism in securing relation--for example, moving
the strand-twisting heads periodically into engagement with
the strands to be twisted or coiled about the slats.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
32 and 44, for slat "beaters" or slat-placing mechanism.
Subclass:
30
Inventions in fabric-making wherein the slats are secured by
the mutual twisting together of the two or more strands of
which a warp or runner is composed and not classifiable in
the minor subclasses defined below.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
34 for machines for coiling one of the strands about another
or winding a continuous binding wire around a strand.
52 for implements specific to wire-fabric making.
118 and indented subclasses, and 121 for implements employed
in uniting intersecting fence strands by coiling in the
making of slatted wire fabrics.
Subclass:
31
Looms or stationary machines having means for embedding the
fabric wires or stays in the slats, usually by the provision
of suitable pressure rollers or hammers.
Subclass:
32
Strand-twisting slat-and-wire fabric machines provided with
means for beating or hammering the slats to place in the
crotch between the strands.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
42 for beaters in portable machines.
31
Subclass:
33
Devices, usually separate from and employed in connection
with strand-twisting machines, for separating or keeping the
strands apart or from twisting exterior to or in advance of
the twister-heads during the twisting operation.
Subclass:
34
Making slatted wire fabric in which the slats are secured to
the strands by the coiling or winding of one strand about the
other, one only of the runner strands being bent or coiled,
the other remaining substantially straight, or a smaller
so-called "binding" or continuous tie-wire may be used and
coiled about the strand between the slats, thus securing the
latter in place.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
49 for machines that operate to secure the slats by securing
separate pieces of wire or "tie-wires" to the strands
embracing the slats.
57 for implements for the same purpose.
Subclass:
35
Looms for making slatted wire fabric or fencing by
wire-crossing mechanism.
(1) Note. See Search Notes under subclass 25.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
139, Textiles: Weaving for devices for ordinary weaving in
the making of an all-wire fabric.
Subclass:
36
Twister-heads of the kind employed in wire-fabric making
machines.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
114 115, 119, for similar heads employed in machines for
twisting or coiling the ends or wires together.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
19, Textiles: Fiber Preparation, subclass 154.
56, Harvesters, subclass 132, 133, 451+, 458+.
Subclass:
37
Portable devices or machines employed in the field (mostly
fence machines) for making slatted wire fabric and not
classifiable in the minor subclasses defined below.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
52 and indented subclasses, for implements or tools adapted
to be held in the hand or partially supported by the work.
Subclass:
38
Portable machines having slat holders, hoppers or equivalent
magazine for the supply of slats.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
27
Subclass:
39
Portable machines having strand-twisting devices for mutually
twisting the strands together to secure slats in place
between them.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 30+ for similar features in looms.
Subclass:
40
Machines provided with means for placing the slats in
definite relation either laterally, longitudinally, or
angularly.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
41 for portable machines having plumbing or leveling
devices.
Subclass:
41
Portable slat-and-wire fabric-making machines having
strand-twisters in which means are provided for the angular
adjustment thereof or for positioning the slats relatively to
the surface of the ground, whereby the slats may be secured
in a vertical position or plumb.
Subclass:
42
Portable machines provided with distinct means for beating
the slat to place in the shed or crotch between the strands.
The beating of the slat to place by the periodic movement of
the machine itself does not place it in this subclass. The
beaters employed are usually auxiliary and operate in a
vibratory manner.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
32 for beaters in looms.
Subclass:
43
Portable slat-and-wire machines having provision for
adjusting the twisting devices vertically to secure a desired
space relation between the strands or runners.
Subclass:
44
Portable slat-and-wire fabric machines having twisters
comprising a suitable carrier provided with guides, clamps,
or holders for the strand wires, which are eccentrically
mounted at one side of and revoluble upon or within a ring or
substantially annular guide forming a sort of eccentric
strap. The carrier holds the strand wires at one side of the
strap center and revolves or turns within it, so as to move
the wires in a circular path to the opposite side to cross
them. This is repeated to produce the desired number of
twists.
Subclass:
45
Portable slat-and-wire fabric-making machines which operate
to effect a simple or single cross in the strand wires
between the pickets or slats, distinguising these machines
from such as produce more than a simple cross.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
50 for portable devices for producing mere relative
separation or displacement and crossing of the strands by
horizontal movement thereof and in a few instances by
vertical movement.
Subclass:
46
Portable slat-and-wire fabric machines provided with
wire-crossers having an oscillatory strand holding and
crossing member, which either structurally or functionally is
of the nature of a compound lever.
Subclass:
47
Portable slat-and-wire machines having means for coiling or
wrapping one strand of the warp or runner around the other in
securing the slats or for coiling a binding or continuous
tie-wire around a strand.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
34 for loom machines.
Subclass:
48
Portable machines for making slatted wire fabrics by weaving
processes, the strands being separated and crossed usually by
imparting to one or both of them horizontal movement, in some
cases vertical movement.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
139, Textiles: Weaving, for stationary machines or looms
employed for ordinary weaving in the making of all-wire
fabrics, and for looms employing other material than wire.
Subclass:
49
Portable slat-and-wire machines for applying a separate
tie-wire to the strand in securing each slat.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
57 for tie-wire applying implements.
116 for dies employed in machines for applying tie-wires.
Subclass:
50
Devices used in connection with fabric- making machines for
placing strands or runners in desired relative position or
spacing them one from another.
Subclass:
51
Devices for holding or clamping the strand wires, slats, or
pickets in attaching the latter or while effecting repairs,
splicing, twisting, etc,; also structural details of fabric
machines for clamping the fabric wires while making the
fabric.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
117
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
294, Handling: Hand and Hoist-Line Implements, subclasses
132+ for wire engaging and clamping means for use with
fence wire-tensioning apparatus.
403, Joints and Connections, appropriate subclasses,
particularly subclass 206 for Joints and connections in
general.
Subclass:
52
Miscellaneous wire-working tools or devices not otherwise
classifiable adapted to be held in the hand or partially
supported by the work, which are employed in making or
repairing fabrics.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
102.5 for looping and twisting implements employed in
stretching or tightening fence wires.
117 or indented subclasses for tools for joining wire by
twisting, coiling, etc.
123 for wire-working implements of more general
application.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
81, Tools, appropriate subclasses.
Subclass:
53
Fabric-making implements having a wire supply or reel from
which the cross or stay wire is drawn; also implements having
magazines for the supply of clips, lock-plates, etc. Most of
the fabric-making implements of magazine type are employed in
supplying and successively wrapping a wire about the strands,
which may be subsequently cut to form a stay.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
15 for looms, employed in similarly wrapping stays.
23 for portable machines.
117 for implements employed for this purpose.
Subclass:
54
Fabric-making implements of the magazine type having a rotary
member or head that in operation wraps or twists the cross
wire, clip, or the tie-wire around the strand.
Subclass:
56
Fabric-making implements for securing slats, pickets, etc.,
to the strands by the usual wire-working operations, but not
staplers for driving pointed structures.
Subclass:
57
Slat-attaching implements for applying a tie-wire to a
strand, so as to embrace and thereby secure the slat in
place.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
49 for portable machines employed in applying tie-wires.
117 and particularly 119 and 122 for implements employed in
splicing wire having similar coiling or twisting elements.
Subclass:
58
Miscellaneous inventions in barbing wire, applying barbs,
making barb-wire fences, etc., not classifiable in the minor
subclasses defined below.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
66 for machines employed in applying sheet-metal barbs.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
29, Metal Working, subclass 7.1 for processes and devices
for cutting barbs of barb-wire fencing, subclass 9 for
barbing fishhooks, and subclass 23.1 for barbing cylindrical
bodies.
59, Chain, Staple, and Horseshoe Making, subclass 73 for
barbing staples.
72, Metal Deforming, subclasses 184+ for notching and
burring wire by rolling.
Subclass:
59
Machines having means for the infeeding of the barb-wire from
which the barbs are formed.
(1) Note. This particular subclass (59) with subclasses 64
and 65, includes all barbing machines for forming or applying
other than four-pointed barbs to strands by means of dies or
oscillating formers, which shape and clamp the barb in
place.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
226, Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length, appropriate
subclasses for methods of, and apparatus for, feeding
material without utilizing the leading or trailing ends to
effect movement of the material.
Subclass:
60
Barbing machines having means for feeding and applying the
barb-wire and employing twisting devices for twisting a
plurality of runner strands, usually two, into a cable, and
thereby securing the barbs thereto. Means are also usually
provided for coiling the barb-wire, cutting and forming
barbs.
(1) Note. Search this class, subclasses defined below or
details of coiling, cutting, and barb-forming.
Subclass:
61
Machines for applying-four-point wire barbs by other
processes than coiling or strand crimping.
(1) Note. In this miscellaneous subclass are all machines
having dies or formers for applying four-point barbs.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
59 for machines for applying other than four-point barbs.
Subclass:
62
Machines for applying four-point barbs having means for
crimping the strands or runners.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
64 for machines for applying two-point barbs to and crimping
the runners.
105 for crimping features.
106 for crimping implements.
Subclass:
63
Machines having rotary heads or coiling devices for applying
four-point barbs.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
65 for specific coiling features or elements in two-point
barb machines.
Subclass:
64
Machines for applying two-point barbs having means for
crimping the strands to which the barbs are secured.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
62 for similar crimping features in four-point barbing
machines.
105 for crimping features.
106 for crimping implements.
Subclass:
65
Machines for making two-point barbs in which the barbs are
secured to the strands by means of rotary coiling heads.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
63 for similar coiling devices employed in applying
four-point barbs.
Subclass:
66
Applying barbs of sheet-metal to wire strands.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
29, Metal Working, subclass 7.1 for processes and devices
for cutting barbs or barb-wire fencing.
Subclass:
67
The making or applying of separate barbs of wire and
barb-applying machines distinguished by the absence of
barb-wire feeding mechanism.
Subclass:
69
Hand tools employed in barbing operations, usually for
forming and applying barbs to wire.
Subclass:
70
Barbing implements having a rotary member or jaw for coiling,
winding, or clamping a barb upon a wire.
Subclass:
71
Making articles from wire stock not classifiable otherwise.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
57, Textiles: Spinning, Twisting, and Twining, appropriate
subclasses for wire-rope and cord making.
72, Metal Deforming, for mere metal shaping.
156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture,
subclasses 47+ as the generic home for processes of making
indefinite length electrical conductors not elsewhere
provided for.
227, Elongated-Member-Driving Apparatus, subclasses 82+ for
combined apparatus for making and driving a member, e.g.,
nail.
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, subclasses 430+ for
permanently winding elongated material; e.g., wire, on a core
to make certain articles; subclasses 360+ for forming loops
usually of wire into a storage coil, and subclasses 470+ for
winding wire onto a storage spool.
335, Electricity: Magnetically Operated Switches, Magnets,
and Electromagnets, subclasses 209+ for electromagnets.
336, Inductor Devices, appropriate subclasses for the
structure of inductive devices (e.g., transformers and
inductive regulators).
470, Threaded, Headed Fastener, or Washer Making: Process and
Apparatus, subclasses 121+.
Subclass:
71.5
This subclass is indented under subclass 71. Subject matter
where the article made is an electric lamp or electric space
discharge device electrode or electrode assembly.
(1) Note. Electric space discharge devices include spark
plugs, radio tubes, X-ray tubes, cathode ray tubes and
similar electric space discharge devices.
(2) Note. The electrode made may be a grid, filament, or any
other electrode which is made of wire, and the manufacture of
the article may include mounting the electrode upon its
support where only wireworking operations are included in the
claims.
(3) Note. Devices, see Class 445, Electric Lamp or Space
Discharge Component of Device Manufacturing, subclasses 35+,
46+ and 66+ and the search notes thereunder.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
313, Electric Lamp and Discharge Devices, appropriate
subclasses for electric lamps and electric space discharge
devices. Note subclass 326 for the electrodes for electric
lamps and electric space discharge devices, per se, and
subclasses 542+ for photo cathodes, per se, or combined with
a phospher or a envelope.
445, Electric Lamp or Space Discharge Component or Device
Manufacturing, subclasses 35+, 46+ and 66+ and the search
notes thereunder for other classes which provide for
processes or apparatus for the manufacture of electric lamps
or electric space discharge devices.
Subclass:
71.6
This subclass is indented under subclass 71.5. Subject matter
where the process or apparatus includes mounting a filament
upon its supports.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
111 and indented subclasses for processes and apparatus for
joining wire.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
313, Electric Lamp and Discharge Devices, subclass 271 for
electric lamps and electric space discharge device filaments
in combination with the supporting structure for the
filament.
445, Electric Lamp or Space Discharge Component or Devices,
Manufacturing, subclasses 29+ and 67+ and the search notes
thereunder for the methods of and apparatus for mounting the
electrodes of an electric lamp or an electric space discharge
device upon their supports.
Subclass:
72
Making wire heddles or heddle eyes for weavers' harness
employed in weaving.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
29, Metal Working, subclass 4.6 for methods and apparatus
for making cord heddles.
Subclass:
73
Making wire bale-ties for baling or bundling, eyes or hooks
being formed at the ends of the tie during its formation.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
80 for specific hook-forming devices.
93.2 for tools for tightening and joining bale bands, and
see the Notes thereto for other binding devices.
102 for specific loop-forming devices.
104 for specific eye-forming devices.
115 for machines for splicing or twisting the ends of
bale-ties together.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
24, Buckles, Buttons, Clasps, etc., subclass 16, and indented
subclasses for the article of manufacture; 27 and 29 for
illustrated methods of making or tying.
81, Tools, subclass 9.3.
Subclass:
74
Making wire into articles known to the trade as "box-straps"
or "bundling wire," usually comprising strands having eyes or
loops formed at intervals throughout the length.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
102 and 104, for miscellaneous loop and eye forming devices
respectively.
Subclass:
75
Making wire bails for pails, boxes, etc., and for supplying
handles thereto, most of which include means for forming
hooks or eyes in the ends of the bail.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
102 for loop-forming devices.
104 for eye-forming devices.
Subclass:
76
Making ferrules of wire by coiling, and generally including
means for soldering the convolutions into an integral
structure.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
16, Miscellaneous Hardware, subclass 108, for the article.
72, Metal Deforming, appropriate subclasses for a method of
or means for convoluting a metal strip.
Subclass:
77
Bending and shaping wire into forms suitable for use in hats
and hat frames.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
223, Apparel Apparatus, subclass 17 for inserting wires in
hat brims.
Subclass:
80
Making wire hooks.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
29, Metal Working, subclass 7 and 9.
Subclass:
81
Making wire garment hooks or garment hooks and eyes.
Subclass:
81.5
This subclass is indented under subclass 80. Subject matter
where the article made is a hanger for a coat or other
garment.
(1) Note. The hanger usually consists of a generally
triangular wire frame having a hook formed at the apex
thereof.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
83 for the making of wire clothespins.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
223, Apparel Apparatus, subclass 85 for the article.
Subclass:
82
Inventions for making wire clips or fasteners not otherwise
classifiable. Includes devices for the making of unpointed
staples or those not especially adapted to be driven.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
71 for search data for staple making, forming, and driving
devices wherein the staple made or employed is adapted to be
driven.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
29, Metal Working, subclass 13 for devices for making
paper-fastener clips designed to perforate the paper; and 5,
for clips of that type. See the appropriate subclasses under
592+ for a method of making and/or applying a ring, clip,
etc., to livestock, e.g., a hog, and subclasses 33+ and
243.5+ for a means to do so.
72, Metal Deforming, for making an article by a mere
metal-shaping operation.
493, Manufacturing Container or Tube From Paper; or Other
Manufacturing From a Sheet or Web, especially subclasses 375+
for pin ticket making and an attaching device for applying
a clip to a tag.
Subclass:
83
Making wire clips designed for temporarily securing clothing
or the like to a clothes-line.
Subclass:
84
Making wire lacings for securing the ends of belts or the
edges of fabrics together.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
93 for coiling devices for forming and applying belt
fasteners or lacings comprising wire coils.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
24, Buckles, Buttons, Clasps, etc., subclass 31, and indented
subclasses for the article.
Subclass:
85
Making wire articles adapted to be subsequently applied to
bottles or stoppers for securing the latter.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
94 for machines for applying wire to bottles and corks for
stoppering the bottle.
Subclass:
86
Making wire cork or stopper extractors of spiral form.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
72, Metal Deforming, subclass 66 and 135+ for coiling a
metal workpiece, and subclasses 64+ and 299 for twisting
such.
81, Tools, subclass 3.45 for corkscrews wherein the method
may be illustrated in the article.
Subclass:
87
Making hairpins from wire stock by bending or twisting.
(1) Note. Mere coating, enameling, soldering, or like
operations foreign to those characterizing wire-working are
excluded from this subclass unless combined with operations
or means for bending or twisting wire.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
59, Chain, Staple, and Horseshoe Making, subclasses 71+ for
making or forming staples generally U-shaped, having legs
substantially equal in length and adapted to be driven into
wood or other material.
163, Needle and Pin Making, subclass 6 and 7, and note the
lines of division set forth by definitions.
Subclass:
88
Making or forming wire rings, hoops, or closed loops of
wire.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
81 104 and 115, for machines for splicing the ends of a wire
hoop together.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
29, Metal Working, subclass 7 for making eyebolts and hooks,
subclass 8 for making finger rings, and subclasses 592+ for
methods of making rings, loops, etc.
57, Textiles: Spinning, Twisting, and Twining, subclass 21,
201, and 362 for endless bands made by twisting or twining
operations and machines and processes for making them.
59, Chain, Staple, and Horseshoe Making, subclasses 16+ for
combined machines for making chain devices.
72, Metal Deforming, appropriate subclasses for plastically
working an annular metal workpiece.
144, Woodworking, subclass 268, for coiling wooden hoops.
219, Electric Heating, subclasses 51+ for ring or loop
making, involving electric welding.
223, Apparel Apparatus, subclass 6 and 27 for hoop-skirt
making machines.
227, Elongated-Member-Driving Apparatus, subclass 77 for
apparatus for deforming a member, e.g, ring, remote from the
work-surface.
470, Threaded, Headed Fastener, or Washer Making: Process and
Apparatus, subclasses 87+.
Subclass:
89
Setting coil springs or causing them to conform to
predetermined length or shape, generally by compressing them
to produce uniformity of product.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
29, Metal Working, subclass 215 and 225.
Subclass:
90
Making wire stays as a separate article of manufacture,
principally the stays or cross wires employed in making
fabrics or fences.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
245, Wire Fabrics and Structure, for fabric stays.
256, Fences, subclass 35 for the manufactured stay.
Subclass:
91
Making crimped or bent wire stays employed as stiffeners in
garments, particularly corset stays.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
2, Apparel, subclasses 259+, especially subclass 264 for
metal stays for corsets.
128, Surgery, subclasses 465+ for wire and metal stays used
in brassieres, including stays, per se, for brassieres only;
and subclasses 567+ for wire and metal stays used in
corsets.
223, Apparel Apparatus, subclass 6 and 27 for machines for
making or applying types of garment-stiffeners other than
bent or crimped wire.
Subclass:
92
Making spiral studs--for example, shirt-studs--comprising a
tapering or conical coil of wire and terminating in an
axially alined shank or end at right angles to the plane of
coiling.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
72, Metal Deforming, subclasses 138+ for an apparatus for
forming a metal coil of varied pitch or diameter.
Subclass:
92.1
Limited to devices on or by which material, generally wire,
is wound to produce a coil of predetermined form or shape,
comprising mostly formers for winding armature coils.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
72, Metal Deforming, appropriate subclasses involving
wrapping metal around a form or core, for combined apparatus
including such a core, and subclasses 462+ for a form or
core, per se.
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, subclasses 430+ for
winding elongated material on a core to provide a composite
article and 360+ for forming loops usually of wire into a
storage coil.
Subclass:
92.2
Forms or frames that are adapted to be rotated for winding
the material to shape or in combination with the devices or
machines for rotating them.
Subclass:
92.3
Methods and apparatus in which a helix rotated about its axis
adjacent a row of loops or holes threads itself through the
loops or holes successively.
(1) Note. Included here, and in the indented subclasses, are
processes and apparatus involving the mere juxtapositioning
of elements plus the necessary manipulation required to
interlace a helix with said elements to form a unitary web,
fabric, or assembly. The absence of wire deformation, cutting
and/or tensioning will not exclude processes and apparatus
otherwise within the scope of this subclass.
(2) Note. Included here, for example, is the application of
helices to the edges of perforated sheets or leaves so as to
make a "spiral" bound book (see particularly subclass 92.93),
the joining of coil elements by helices or the mutual
intercoiling of helices to form spring fabrics, and the
linking of belt ends by helices.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
29, Metal Working, subclass 240.5 for means to insert and/or
remove a helix by rotation and subclass 456 for related
methods.
59, Chain, Staple, and Horseshoe Making, subclass 20 for
apparatus wherein a continuous rod or wire is coiled into a
helix cut into sections to form links, and said links
assembled and united into a completed chain.
245, Wire Fabrics and Structure, subclass 6 for fabrics
comprising a plurality of intercoiled helices.
281, Books, Strips, and Leaves, subclass 25 for a plurality
of sheets secured together by means of a helix interlaced
through aligned perforations along a margin of said sheets.
Subclass:
92.4
This subclass is indented under subclass 92.3. Processes.
Subclass:
92.5
This subclass is indented under subclass 92.3. Apparatus
including means for repeated interlacing of helices through a
particular aligned loop row without intervening shifts in
relative position between fabric and helix projecting means,
such repeated interlacing occurring periodically in response
to a predetermined sequence.
(1) Note. The plural helices or "cords" are usually to
delineate the borders of desired lengths of fabric and also
serve as reinforcements for said borders.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
5, Beds, subclass 260 for "cords" in the margin or rim of a
bed bottom fabric.
Subclass:
92.6
This subclass is indented under subclass 92.3. Apparatus
characterized by two or more helix projecting means
positioned and operatively linked as to effect a mutual
intercoiling of the helices concurrently with helix
projection.
(1) Note. Included here are the devices which simultaneously
form and intercoil all the helices comprising the full width
of a fabric the axial length of the helices ordinarily fixing
the extent of the fabric length.
(2) Note. Interlacing of plural helices without mutually
intercoiling said helices is not classified in this subclass.
See the search note below.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
92.3 and throughout the subclasses indented thereunder.
Subclass:
92.7
This subclass is indented under subclass 92.3. Devices with
features other than and in addition to means for providing a
helix and applying it by axial rotation to successive loops,
means for positioning said loops, and interrelating control
means.
(1) Note. In this subclass, for example, are combinations
with means to shape the selvage edges of the assembled
fabric, combinations with means to deform the helix after
intercoiling, and combinations with automatic control means.
(2) Note. Helix providing includes means for forming a helix
with or without subsequent cut-off or means for supplying
prepared or preformed helices with or without subsequent
cutting means. Coiling, per se, with or without subsequent
cut-off is classified in Class 72, Metal Deforming,
subclasses 135+; the additional step of guiding and/or
positioning or interlacing placing the combination within the
scope of subclasses 92.3+. See Class 83, Cutting, for
cutting, per se.
(3) Note. Helix applying includes helix guide means as well
as means to shift the helix along, and rotate it about the
cylindrical axis of said helix. Both shift and rotation may
be an inherent function of a helix forming means. The axial
shift may be effected solely by engagement of a positively
rotated helix with aligned loops.
(4) Note. Positioning includes clamping, guiding, and/or
supporting means for successive loops and/or assembled fabric
of which said loops form a working edge and means for reeling
assembled fabric and/or feeding said fabric from an assembly
or working zone. In addition to the shifting means set forth
in (2) Note, above, positioning includes means for relatively
shifting a loop row and/or assembled fabric with respect to
helix applying means.
(5) Note. Interrelating control includes cyclic interlock
means; that is, means for periodic or sequential operations
in which the same series of operations on the material are
repeated unchanged, in the absence of adjustments of the
machine under a particular stimulus such as the presence or
absence of material or the application of power to the drive
shaft. Interrelating control does not include automatic
control, as to which see (6) Note, below.
(6) Note. Automatic control includes means to sense a
condition or change of condition which means effects a
control operation on the apparatus. In this subclass the
condition or change of condition is usually a misalignment,
tangling, and/or breaking of a projected helix.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
92.5 for automatic control combined with pattern or cording
means.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
72, Metal Deforming, see (2) Note.
83, Cutting, see (2) Note.
192, Clutches and Power-Stop Control, subclass 116.5 for
control mechanism, per se, usually automatic in operation,
for stopping a machine when some part of the machine fails to
function, or the material fails or is disarranged.
226, Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length, appropriate
subclasses for methods of, and apparatus for, feeding
material without utilizing the leading or trailing ends to
effect movement of the material.
Subclass:
92.8
This subclass is indented under subclass 92.3. Apparatus
including means for shifting rows of loops or openings
successively into position for application of a helix.
(1) Note. This subclass includes means which in addition
effect a relative shift along the cylindrical axis of a
projected helix, in increments of half the helix pitch,
between the projector and a row of loops, said shift
occurring between successive interlacing operations.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
226, Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length, appropriate
subclasses for methods of, and apparatus for, feeding
material without utilizing the leading or trailing ends to
effect movement of the material.
Subclass:
92.9
This subclass is indented under subclass 92.3. Apparatus
characterized by the shifting of helix rotating means along a
path substantially parallel to the cylindrical axis of a
rotated helix during the intercoiling of the helix.
(1) Note. Included in this subclass are devices wherein
shifting is effected solely by screwing action of a helix
with respect to a row of loops or with respect to a fixed
abutment in line with and in front of said row, the screwing
action being imparted by positive rotation of a helix
gripping chuck.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
92.8 for axially shifting of helix rotation means combined
with loop row shifting means.
Subclass:
92.93
This subclass is indented under subclass 92.3. Apparatus
including a plurality of axially parallel, radially spaced,
grooved rollers, through which a helix is simultaneously
guided, rotated, and advanced.
Subclass:
92.94
This subclass is indented under subclass 92.3. Apparatus
including channel or grooved means through which a helix is
projected, with or without helix deflecting elements, which
fix the path along which the helix travels.
(1) Note. Included are helix guide means which serve to
juxtaposition portions of a loop row with respect to another
loop row and the path of a projected helix.
(2) Note. Included are channel or grooved means positioned
about both helix and loop row.
Subclass:
93
Applying wire to articles--such as making and applying
belt-lacings, wire couplings, clips, or joints, wiring
nursery tags, making folding partition box packing, fastening
springs to articles and the like the wire being bent, coiled,
or twisted in a manner characteristic of wire-working
devices, but excluding wire-winding.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
29, Metal Working, subclass 243.5 for overedge assembly
apparatus, e.g., a machine for applying belt books to a belt,
in subclass 243.51.
56, Harvesters, subclasses 67+, 131+ and 432+.
81, Tools, subclass 9.3 for applying wire rings and clamps
to hose couplings.
128, Surgery, subclass 332.
144, Woodworking, subclass 25 for a box hooping machine.
227, Elongated-Member-Driving Apparatus, subclass 82 for
combined apparatus for forming and applying a member, e.g.,
nail.
493, Manufacturing Container or Tube From Paper; or Other
Manufacturing From a Sheet or Web, subclasses 375+ for
applying wire to a tag, usually involving feeding, cutting,
twisting, or knotting.
Subclass:
93.2
This subclass is indented under subclass 93. Apparatus by
which a flexible filament strand or band encircling the
material is tensioned to increase its tightness about the
material and while so tensioned has spaced portions secured
together, such apparatus being supported manually or on the
work.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
123.6 for stretching implements having a cutting feature.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
100, Presses, subclass 29 for binder applying and securing
apparatus, not otherwise provided for, such apparatus not
being supported by the work or supported manually.
254, Implements or Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling
Force, subclasses 199+ for portable implements or apparatus
for tensioning flexible material (e.g., tightening cord
around a box) from which the implements or apparatus are
detached after tensioning.
Subclass:
93.4
This subclass is indented under subclass 93.2. Apparatus in
which the means to secure together the spaced portions of the
binder includes means to deform a sleeve, a U-shaped clamp
member within which the portions are received.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
100 Presses, subclass 30 for binder applying and securing
apparatus, not otherwise provided for, the securing being by
the deformation of a sleeve or U-shaped clamp about the said
portions, such apparatus not being supported by the work or
supported manually.
subclasses 150+ for a sleeve of clamp deforming tool, per
se, joining the ends of binder strip or wire.
Subclass:
93.6
This subclass is indented under subclass 93.2. Apparatus in
which the tensioning of the binder about the material
involves the intertwisting of the local spaced portions of
the binder, such twisting being employed for joining the
binder portions together.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 118+ for wire joining twister implements, per
se.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
100, Presses, subclass 31 for binder applying and securing
apparatus not otherwise provided for, and including means for
joining spaced portions of the binder element by the
intertwisting of such spaced portions, such apparatus not
being supported by the work or supported manually.
Subclass:
94
Wiring corks and bottles to provide suitable fastenings for
securing the corks or stoppers to the bottles.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1 for devices including more than the operation of wiring,
as corking and wiring, etc.
Subclass:
95
Devices for wiring bottles and corks having means for
rotating the bottle.
Subclass:
97
Applying wire to a suitable back, producing what is
technically known as card-clothing, employed in carding
machines.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
19, Textiles: Fiber Preparation, subclass 114 for the
article and its structural features, construction of teeth,
etc.
227, Elongated-Member-Driving Apparatus, appropriate
subclasses for devices for forming wire pins and inserting
them into work, subclasses 79+ for devices for inserting
wire into work and severing the inserted portion, and
subclass 77 for devices for inserting card teeth and bending
the inserted ends to engage the wool.
Subclass:
100
Applying or inserting a single row of teeth or combing
needles in a narrow back or holder.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
97
Subclass:
101
Inventions in what is technically known as "knotting"--i.e.,
securing the ends of a spiral wire spring either to itself or
to another spring. The subclass, however, is intended to
receive all miscellaneous patents involving wire-knotting
devices not directly classifiable elsewhere.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
93.2 for apparatus supported manually or on the work and
tightening and joining a flexible binder therearound.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
5, Beds, subclass 257, 271, and 272 for illustrated methods
of "knotting".
56, Harvesters, subclass 433, and indented subclasses for
machines for knotting cord or wire.
100, Presses, subclasses 29+ and 32 for binding devices not
elsewhere classified, having means to join the ends of the
binder.
289, Knots and Knot Tying, subclass 2 and indented
subclasses, to and including subclass 12.
493, Manufacturing Container or Tube From Paper; or Other
Manufacturing From a Sheet or Web, subclasses 375+ for
applying wire to a tag, usually involving feeding, cutting,
twisting, or knotting.
Subclass:
102
Inventions for forming loops in or doubling wire.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
104 when the loop is formed into an eye; and 88.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
29, Metal Working, subclass 5.
56, Harvesters, subclass 138, 139, 142, 145, 147, 150, 151,
and 433 and indented subclasses.
59, Chain, Staple, and Horseshoe Making, subclass 21, 22 and
71.
227, Elongated-Member-Driving Apparatus, subclass 77 for
applying a member, e.g., wire, to work and deform an end
portion, e.g., to form a loop.
289, Knots and Knot Tying, subclass 2 and indented
subclasses, to and including subclass 12.
Subclass:
102.5
Loop-forming implements for operating upon a wire strand
intermediate its ends for the purpose of taking up slack, the
implement being then removed.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
24, Buckles, Buttons, Clasps, etc., subclass 71.1. and
indented subclasses for permanent tighteners applicable to a
strand intermediate its ends.
Subclass:
103
Coiling the ends of wire loops or other portions thereof.
Subclass:
104
Forming eyes or closed loops in wire, generally by bending or
twisting.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
73 88, 102, and 114.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
29, Metal Working, subclass 7 for eyebolt and hook making
devices; 9 for fish-hook making, and 20, for forming eyes in
spectacle frames.
79, Button Making, subclass 2 for forming eyes in wire
button shanks.
163, Needle and Pin Making, subclass 7.
Subclass:
105
Forming crimps or kinks in wire or wire fabrics. This
subclass includes all but the implements which are classified
in the subclass immediately following.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
72, Metal Deforming, appropriate subclasses for a method of
or means for corrugating a metal workpiece, for instance (but
not exhaustively), subclass 196, for shaping by a "flying
tool" engaging moving work, and subclass 385 for corrugating
a stationary work-piece between bending dies.
156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture,
subclasses 339+ for processes for reshaping or deforming
sheets or webs of paper or paper like material.
425, Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating:
Apparatus, subclass 369 for an endless surface (e.g., roll,
etc.) type means having structure for corrugating a preform,
and subclass 391 for a preform convoluting or twisting means
not otherwise provided for.
Subclass:
106
Hand tools specially adapted for crimping wire.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
81, Tools, particularly subclasses 300+ for tool-jaw(s)
positioned by relatively movable plural handles (e.g.,
pliers).
Subclass:
107
Wire-working operations upon wire fabrics or in finishing the
same by gaging, straightening, leveling, compressing,
cutting, forming, or shaping by dies, etc., and not
classifiable in the minor subclasses below.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
72, Metal Deforming, appropriate subclasses for mere bending
or straightening of a metal workpiece.
Subclass:
108
Devices for stretching wire fabric, but not devices for
stretching individual wires, nor permanent, portable or
removable fence stretchers.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
123.5 and indented subclass for wire-working implements for
stretching individual wires.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
26, Textiles: Cloth Finishing, subclasses 71+ for apparatus
to stretch natural and plastic cloth, as running webs; and
see subclasses 51+ for the combination therewith of a diverse
operation.
69, Leather Manufactures, subclass 46.
112, Sewing, subclass 119 for quilting-frame structure.
254, Implements or Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling
Force, subclasses 199+ for portable implements or apparatus
for tensioning flexible material (e.g., wire fence fabric,
fence wires) from which the implements or apparatus are
detached after tensioning.
256, Fences, subclass 37 and indented subclasses for
permanently mounted fence stretchers.
Subclass:
109
Stretchers specially adapted for use in attaching wire
fabrics to frames, such as screen, door, and window frames.
Subclass:
110
Frame-attaching devices particularly adapted for securing
wire-mattress fabric to bed frames.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
5, Beds, subclass 211, and indented subclasses for permanent
stretchers attached to the frame.
Subclass:
111
Miscellaneous devices and processes for joining or uniting
wires not classifiable in the minor subclasses below.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
29, Metal Working, subclass 282 for a means to join wires by
crimping a sleeve around them, subclasses 432+ for a method
including a step of driving a nail or staple into work and
not elsewhere classified, subclass 461 for processes of
joining wire cables which include a step of spreading the
strands of the cables to provide larger surface contact, and
subclasses 517+ for processes of joining wires together by
deforming a hollow sleeve around them.
56, Harvesters, subclass 432 for means mounted on a
harvester and operatively connected therewith for forming
compact bundles of stalks and binding them as the harvester
travels through the field, particularly subclasses 451+
wherein the bundle is encircled by wire or the like, and the
ends of the wire twisted together, and subclasses 464+ for
such devices wherein a cord binder is used the ends of which
are clamped together by a clip.
156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture,
subclass 49 for processes for splicing indefinite length
electrical conductors not elsewhere provided for.
164, Metal Founding, subclasses 91+ and particularly
subclass 110 for processes of joining wire by metal casting
operations.
228, Metal Fusion Bonding, appropriate subclasses for making
a joint by soldering, brazing or welding.
289, Knots and Knot Tying, appropriate subclasses for devices
for joining cords or strands wherein the portions of the
parts joined are not held together by reasons wholly of the
rigidity of the material.
403, Joints and Connections, appropriate subclasses for
joints of general utility.
Subclass:
112
Joining wire by the process of electric welding, particularly
in fabric-making.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
219, Electric Heating, subclass 617 and 50+ for electric
welding. Note particularly indented subclasses 51+, 56+, 605,
and 636.
Subclass:
113
Machines for tying, splicing, or otherwise securing the ends
of wires together or securing one wire to another.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
93.2 for apparatus for tensioning and joining a flexible
binder in which the apparatus is supported manually or on the
work.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
56, Harvesters, subclass 131, and indented subclasses.
100, Presses, subclass 33 for apparatus not elsewhere
classified for joining the ends of a binder in which the
apparatus has a support for the material to be bound.
Subclass:
114
Machines for forming eyes in the ends of wires and
interlocking the same in the process of forming, consisting
principally of devices for making check-row wire, but not
limited thereto.
Subclass:
115
Wire-splicing machines having a revoluble head or jaw for
twisting-or coiling.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
36 for twister-heads.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
19, Textiles: Fiber Preparation, subclass 154 for
twisting-heads.
Subclass:
116
Dies employed in machines for splicing or joining wires.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
11 20 and 113, for the machines in which the dies are used.
Subclass:
117
Miscellaneous hand tools for splicing or securing wires
together and not classifiable in the subclass defined below.
Includes all implements for coiling or winding one wire about
another.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
124 for implements employed in making a wire coil rather
than in joining wires.
Subclass:
118
Implements for mutually twisting two wires together a twist
being imparted to wire, so that they are intertwisted. Most
of the implements of this subclass are employed in the
manufacture of slatted wire fabrics.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
102.5 for implements employed in looping and twisting fence
strands for the purpose of taking up slack and stretching
them.
117 if the tool operates to coil or wind one wire about
another which remains straight.
Subclass:
119
Wire-splicing implements having a rotary jaw or head for
receiving the wires to be intertwisted.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
36 for twister-heads, per se.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
19, Textiles: Fiber Preparation, subclass 154 for
twisting-heads.
Subclass:
120
Wire-twisting tools having means for separating the wires to
be twisted or spreading them apart adjacent to the point of
twisting.
Subclass:
121
Wire-joining tools of the plier type, particularly adapted
either for coiling or twisting wires together.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
7, Compound Tools, subclasses 125+ for compound tools of
the plier type.
81, Tools, subclasses 300+ for miscellaneous tools of plier
type.
433, Dentistry, subclass 4 for orthodontic wireworking
pliers.
Subclass:
122
Implements provided with a rotary coiler or winder for
splicing wires together by winding or coiling one wire about
another.
Subclass:
123
Miscellaneous hand tools specially adapted for working wire
not classifiable in the other subclasses of implements in
this class or which include other matter not classifiable in
such classes.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
7, Compound Tools, and 81, Tools for specific structural
features.
81, Tools, particularly subclass 300 for tool-jaw(s)
positioned by relatively movable plural handles (e.g.,
pliers).
433, Dentistry, subclasses 3+ for orthodontic implements
for working with arch wire.
Subclass:
123.5
Wire-working implements including means for stretching the
wire.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
102.5 and for fabric stretchers subclasses 108+.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
254, Implements or Apparatus for Applying Pushing of Pulling
Force, subclasses 199+ for portable imlements or apparatus
for tensioning flexible material (e.g., wire fence fabric,
fence wires) from which the implements or apparatus are
detached after tensioning.
Subclass:
123.6
Wire-stretching implements, including means for severing the
wire.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
100, Presses, subclass 32 for apparatus, not provided for
elsewhere, by which a binder encircling material is tensioned
to increase its tightness about the material.
Subclass:
124
Hand tools for making wire coils, but not tools for coiling
one wire about another.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 117+ for tools for coiling one wire about
another.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
72, Metal Deforming, appropriate subclasses for an apparatus
for convoluting metal work.
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, subclass 439.3, 442,
and 916 for hand tool for winding wire coils on a core of
comparatively short length.
Subclass:
139
Devices that both straighten and cut wire.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
153, Metal Binding, subclass 89 for devices which straighten
and cut wire in which the straightening is by bending the
metal back and forth and proceeding with such work
continuously along the metal to treat each successive portion
similarly.
Subclass:
140
Wire straightening and cutting devices having means to
produce straight wires of given length, the cutting mechanism
usually being actuated by the wire to be cut.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
227, Elongated-Member-Driving Apparatus, appropriate
subclasses for devices for applying nails, staples and clips
by driving and/or clenching in combination with means to form
the element to be applied including cutting predetermined
lengths of wire.
Subclass:
147
Devices specially adapted for straightening wire.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
72, Metal Deforming, and see (81) Note herein-above.
Subclass:
149
Miscellaneous wire-twisting devices not classifiable in other
subclasses of this or other arts under appropriate titles.
(1) Search this class, particular groups under Article
making or forming.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
56, Harvesters, subclass 132, 133, 451+, and 458.
57, Textiles: Spinning, Twisting, and Twining, appropriate
subclasses.
72, Metal Deforming, and see (81) and (83) Notes
hereinabove.
493, Manufacturing Container or Tube From Paper; or Other
Manufacturing From a Sheet or Web, subclasses 375+ for
devices for applying wire to tags, usually involving feeding,
cutting, twisting, or knotting devices.
Subclass:
150
SEAL APPLYING OR BAND FASTENING:
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Apparatus comprising a manually manipulatable or work
supported apparatus for applying a tag or fastener to or
otherwise securing the end portions of a flexible strand or
band.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
100 Presses, subclass 30 for binder tightening and securing
apparatus, not elsewhere provided for, and including means to
secure the spaced portions of the binder by deforming a
sleeve or a U-shape clamp member, within which the said
portions are received.
Subclass:
151
By device having magazine for seals or fastener:
This subclass is indented under subclass 150. Apparatus
further including means to store a supply of the tags or
fasteners and to dispense or present one of the tags or
fastener upon demand.
Subclass:
152
By device having cutting edge:
This subclass is indented under subclass 150. Apparatus
including a work contacting portion which penetrates the work
to separate one portion from another.
Subclass:
153
By device having single throw lever:
This subclass is indented under subclass 150. Apparatus
including a force multiplying actuator bar comprising an
elongated pivoted bar adapted to be moved about a pivot by
hand whereby a single sweep of the bar causes the apparatus
to apply the tag or fastener, or otherwise secure the end
portions of the strand or band.
Subclass:
154
Including pivoted force multiplier between die and lever:
This subclass is indented under subclass 153. Apparatus
including a second bar or link pivotally connected to a work
contacting portion and to the actuator bar to further
increase the force applied by hand through the actuator bar.
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Last Modified: 6 October 2000