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

Class
401
COATING IMPLEMENTS WITH MATERIAL SUPPLY

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Subclass		Title
ClassTitle		===> COATING IMPLEMENTS WITH MATERIAL SUPPLY
1		WITH MEANS TO IMPART HEAT TO MATERIAL
2		. At discharge portion of implement
3		INCLUDING HEAT-INSULATING HANDLE
4		WITH MEANS TO AGITATE MATERIAL IN RESERVOIR
5		INCLUDING MEANS TO REGULATE COATING THICKNESS
6		WITH MEANS TO ATTACH OR CONFORM TO BODY OF USER
7		. Hand-or finger-receiving pocket
8		. Hand-or finger loop or strap
9		INCLUDING TOOL(S) FOR CURVED OR PLURAL WORK SURFACE(S)
10		. Confronting tool faces
11		. Concave tool face
12		. . For buttering ear corn
13		WITH MEANS TO WITHDRAW MATERIAL FROM WORK SURFACE INTO STORAGE
14		WITH SURFACE-PROTECTING BUMPER
15		WITH SPLASH GUARD OR DRIP CATCHER
16		DIVERSE COATING TOOLS
17		. Each with individual supply
18		. Separable for independent use
19		. Including solid material for rubbing contact
20		. . Pencil and bifurcate nib pen
21		. Including ball, roller or endless-belt tool
22		. Simultaneously operative along same path
23		. Including porous tool through which material flows
24		. . And brush, broom, or mop
25		. Including blade-like, pad-like, or apertured tool
26		. . Apertured tool
27		. . Including means for dispensing material directly to work surface
28		MULTIPLE-TIP MULTIPLE-DISCHARGE TOOL (E.G., MASSAGE TOOL)
29		PLURAL TOOLS INCLUDING PROJECTABLE AND RETRACTABLE TOOL
30		. Single actuator for simultaneous projection of one tool and retraction of another
31		. Including individual actuators
32		. Selective individual projection by single actuator
33		. . With retraction spring
34		PLURAL EXPOSED TOOLS EACH WITH INDIVIDUAL SUPPLY
35		. Side-by-side
36		INCLUDING MEANS FOR SUPPLYING MATERIAL ALTERNATIVELY TO EACH OF PLURAL TOOLS
37		PLURAL TOOLS WITH SUPPLY TO LESS THAN ALL
38		. Including supply container and independent applicator
39		. Brush, broom or mop
40		CONCENTRATED MATERIAL AND LIQUID CARRIER
41		. Concentrated material in or adjacent reservoir outlet or feeder
42		. . Including conduit supply means for liquid carrier
43		. . . And bypass for liquid carrier
44		SEPARATE FEED FROM PLURAL SUPPLY MEANS TO TOOL OR TO WORK
45		. Selective feed
46		. . Including conduit supply means
47		. Diverse materials supplied
48		WITH MEANS SUPPORTING OR STABILIZING IMPLEMENT IN USE
49		SOLID MATERIAL FOR RUBBING CONTACT OR SUPPORT THEREFOR
50		. With means for severing portion of sheath or for shaping tool (e.g., pencil sharpener)
51		. . Orbiting blade
52		. Combined
53		. Including means to limit tool projection
54		. Cushioned tool
55		. Including means to advance material
56		. . Including means to selectively replenish guide
57		. . Including means to sequentially replenish guide
58		. . With reinforcement for tool
59		. . Inter-related with movable closure
60		. . . Closure-actuated advancing means
61		. . Including removable cap for inactivating advancing means
62		. . And additional means to retract from operative position
63		. . And means to eject piece from advancing means
64		. . . Including screw-feed means for both carrier and ejector
65		. . Step-by-step
66		. . . Rack and pawl mechanism
67		. . . Alternately grasping chucks
68		. . Screw feed
69		. . . Compound screw
70		. . . With means to disengage screw-feed members
71		. . . Oppositely oriented helices
72		. . . Material utilized as threaded advancing element
73		. . . Breech loading implement
74		. . . With retrograde-movement retarder
75		. . . Including means to positively transmit rotation to sliding screw-feed member
76		. . . . Keyed blade-like or eye-headed screw member
77		. . . . By pin and slot coupling
78		. . . . . Including carrier for piece of material
79		. . . Directly actuatable cam members
80		. . With resilient braking means
81		. . By spring pressure
82		. . Including manual actuator
83		. . . And latch
84		. . . And retrograde-movement preventer
85		. . With storage chamber for additional piece(s)
86		. . Including specific element-coupling or retaining means
87		. . Including specific carrier or guide
88		. Including holder
89		. . With storage chamber for additional material
90		. . . Including means to selectively or sequentially replenish guide
91		. . Expendable sheath and use-condition point-protector
92		. . Including chuck
93		. . . And annular clamp for chuck jaws
94		. . . . Spring-urged clamp
95		. . Including means to increase effective length
96		. . Expendable sheath
97		. . . Sectional, scored or weakened
98		. . And removable cap for tool
99		PROJECTABLE AND RETRACTABLE TOOL
100		. Magnetically projected, retracted, or latched
101		. With means to apply force on material in reservoir
102		. Retraction by application of removable closure cap
103		. Tip-pressure projection
104		. Clasp (e.g., Pocket Clip) associated with project-retract means or with latch
105		. . Clasp passage blocked when tool is projected
106		. . . By reception of clasp within implement wall recess
107		. With movable closure or gate
108		. . Interrelated with tool moving means
109		. Including retraction spring and projected-position retainer
110		. . Retainer guided in orbital path (e.g., rotary indexing)
111		. . . And mechanical-movement actuator
112		. . Including laterally or circumferentially movable keeper
113		. . . And separate release member
114		. . . . For releasing flexibly-biased keeper
115		. Projection by movement of implement
116		. By screw mechanism
117		. Manually reciprocable sleeve
118		SUPPLY CONTAINER AND INDEPENDENT APPLICATOR
119		. Applicator provided with material receiver
120		. Barometric reservoir
121		. With means for removing surplus material from tool
122		. . Straddling or encircling tool during withdrawal from supply
123		. Tool supported out of communication with supply
124		. . With removable cap for tool
125		. . Including compartment for tool
126		. Applicator includes container closure or overlies material
127		. . Applicator movable axially relative to closure
128		. . Rod-like or spoon-like solid applicator
129		. . Brush applicator
130		. . Blade-like or pad-like applicator
131		WITH MEANS TO SUPPORT OR STABILIZE IMPLEMENT WHEN NOT IN USE
132		INCLUDING RUPTURABLE MEANS OR SEALED-CARTRIDGE RECEIVER
133		. Sealed-cartridge receiver with flow-establishing means
134		. . By piercing cartridge
135		. . . Implement includes vent, flow-regulator or force-applying means
136		INCLUDING MEANS FOR DISCHARGING MATERIAL ALTERNATIVELY TO TOOL OR TO WORK SURFACE
137		INCLUDING MEANS FOR DISPENSING MATERIAL DIRECTLY TO WORK SURFACE
138		. Reservoir on elongated handle
139		. Blade-like or pad-like tool
140		RESERVOIR SEPARABLY MOUNTED ON ELONGATED HANDLE
141		INCLUDING FLOATING FOLLOWER IN RESERVOIR
142		. Fluid follower
143		INCLUDING MEANS TO APPLY MATERIAL-MOVING FORCE
144		. Including filling tube extensible beyond tool
145		. Including means to flex diaphragm within rigid reservoir
146		. In or at feeder
147		. . Actuated by work-contacting roller or ball
148		. . Actuated by pressure of tool on work surface
149		. . Inflexible solid means
150		. . . Piston in cylinder
151		. Intercommunicable reservoirs or reservoir sections in series
152		. Including means to collapse flexible wall
153		. . Accordion fold wall
154		. . By axial twisting
155		. . By translatory movement along wall
156		. . Resilient wall or wall portion
157		. . . Wall deformed by gas pressure
158		. . . Presser bar means
159		. . . . Actuated by clasp or closure cap
160		. . . . Pivoted on fixed axis
161		. . . . Including fixed guide
162		. . . . Resilient
163		. . . . Including mechanical-movement actuator
164		. . . . . Screw
165		. . . . . Lever
166		. . . . . . Including latch
167		. . . . . . Including spring
168		. . . . Including actuator and disabling latch
169		. . . Movable axially of reservoir or chamber
170		. By telescoping cylinder means in continuous communication
171		. Piston-provided reservoir
172		. . Movable by screw means
173		. . . On piston and reservoir wall
174		. . . On piston and manual actuator
175		. . . . Screw means through piston
176		. . Slidable piston
177		. . . In reservoir having enlarged bore portion
178		. . . Including flow-regulator through piston
179		. . . Including mechanical-movement actuator
180		. . . Spring pressed
181		. . . Including flexible or pivoted actuator
182		. . . Including disengageable or extensible operating rod
183		. Manually engageable resilient wall or wall portion
184		. . Rigid reservoir with resilient wall portion
185		. . . Squeeze bulb
186		. . Including flow-regulator
187		. By compression or suction of gas in reservoir
188R		. . By one-way means for adding gas to reservoir (e.g., pump)
188A		. . . Pens
189		. . By one-way means for removing gas from reservoir
190		. Including pressurized reservoir (e.g., Aersol)
191		MATERIAL-CARRYING TOOL MOVABLE AWAY FROM SUPPLY MEANS
192		TRANSPARENT OR TRANSLUCENT WALL
193		WITH WORK-ENGAGING GUIDE
194		WITH SIGNAL OR INDICATOR
195		COMBINED
196		MATERIAL FLOWS THROUGH POROUS TOOL
197		. Hollow roller
198		. Wick feed from within reservoir to tool
199		. . Wick separate from tool
200		. Particulate fluent material
201		. Including compartment for soluble solid material
202		. With removable cap for tool
203		. Couplable to external source
204		. . With flow-regulator
205		. With flow-regulator
206		. . Resiliently biased
207		. Tool or tool unit separable from reservoir
208		INCLUDING BALL, ROLLER OR ENDLESS-BELT TOOL
209		. Ball
210		. . Adjustable-length reservoir
211		. . Magnetic ball-retainer
212		. . Ball-bearing mounting
213		. . With sealing cap
214		. . Elastic ball-mounting
215		. . Specific ball
216		. . Specific ball-retainer
217		. . With means to vent reservoir
218		. Engageable with feed roller
219		. With flow-regulator
220		. . By movement of roller
221		BIFURCATE POINTED NIB TOOL (E.G., FOUNTAIN PEN)
222		. Including reservoir and feeder
223		. . Including capillary material-retainer filling reservoir
224		. . Including filamentary conductor for material or air
225		. . Including overflow receiver
226		. . . Hooded tool
227		. . . Transverse overflow-receiving grooves or slots
228		. . . Laterally exposed
229		. . . In or contiguous to feed path
230		. . Intercommunicable reservoir sections in series
231		. . Means regulating nib slit width or flexure
232		. . With flow-regulator
233		. . . By adjusting gap between broad-face tool elements (e.g., ruling pen)
234		. . . Actuated by protective cap for tool
235		. . . By pressure of tool on work surface
236		. . . For adjusting feeder channel
237		. . . . Apertured flow-regulator part
238		. . Feeder overlying tool
239		. . . With additional feed element underlying tool
240		. . Angulated or curved feed path
241		. . Feeder extending into reservoir
242		. . Distinct air passage in feeder
243		. . Including removable cap for tool
244		. . . And latch
245		. . . Cap includes means for sealing feeder or air passage
246		. . . Cap shoulder abutting outer end of pen section
247		. . . Composite cap
248		. . Hooded tool
249		. . Tool and feeder specifically related
250		. . . Integral or interlocked
251		. . Specific joint or connection
252		. Attached coating material retainer feeding directly to tool
253		. . Transversely grooved or slotted
254		. . Cooperating with tool to form pocket
255		. . . Overlying tool
256		. Broad face, adjustable gap tool (e.g., ruling pen)
257		. . Pivotally related tool elements
258		INCLUDING STYLUS
259		. Axially movable by pressure on work surface
260		. . Resiliently biased outwardly
261		INCLUDING TOOL WITH BLADE-LIKE, PAD-LIKE, OR APERTURED WORK-CONTACTING END
262		. With removable cap for tool
263		. With flow-regulator
264		. . By pressure of implement on work surface
265		. Apertured tool
266		. . Blade-like or pad-like
267		. Supply-means at tool only (e.g., lettering pen)
268		BRUSH, BROOM, OR MOP
269		. With removable cap for tool
270		. With flow-regulator
271		. . Actuated by material supply
272		. . Actuated by telescoping of tool or by pressure of tool on work surface
273		. . . Resiliently biased to closed position
274		. . Responsive to movement of implement
275		. . Actuated by movable implement handle
276		. . Vent-regulating means
277		. . Having operating screw
278		. . Resiliently biased
279		. . . Including mechanical-movement actuator
280		. . Apertured movable part
281		. . . Rotatable or revoluble
282		. Including feeder
283		. . Porous feeder
284		. . Material directed to periphery of tool
285		. . Elongated perforated tube transverse of tool elements
286		. . Feeder terminates among tool elements
287		. . . Plural feeder terminals
288		. . . Encompassed by confining means for tool elements
289		. . Attached or attachable to conduit supply means
290		. . Including specific retaining means for tool
291		. . Perforated support
292		MISCELLANEOUS
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		DIGESTS
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DIG 1		Readily detachable lipstick cartridges
DIG 2		Remote recording of writing
DIG 3		Point Shape

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