CPC Definition - Subclass D05B
This place covers:
Sewing apparatus or machines
Sewing processes dependent on their use
The thread seams produced thereby
This place does not cover:
Details of garments (e.g. stitches) or of their making | |
Sewing tables (as furniture) | |
Permanently attaching together sheets, quires or signatures by stitching with filamentary material, e.g. textile thread (i.e. sewing in bookbinding) | |
Sewing machines modified for knitting |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
The classification in D05B is desirably complemented by a classification in the indexing scheme relating to sewing, embroidering and tufting
Selection of machines, accessories or parts of the same kind D05D 2203/00
Interface between the operator and the machine D05D 2205/00
Use of special elements D05D 2207/00
Use of special materials D05D 2209/00
Applied objects or articles D05D 2303/00
Operations on the work before or after sewing D05D 2305/00
In addition, the classification in D05B is desirably complemented by a classification for the application in the indexing scheme relating to textiles
Wearing apparel D10B 2501/00
Domestic or personal D10B 2503/00
Industrial D10B 2505/00
Sport; military D10B 2507/00
Medical; hygiene D10B 2509/00
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Sewing | Uniting or fastening by stitches. |
This place covers:
Sewing apparatus or machines wherein neither the needle nor the work moves laterally.
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
A running-stitch | Basic stitch done through one or more layers, worked by passing the needle in and out the workpiece |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Single chain stitch seams | Seams forming a chain on the upper surface of the workpiece. |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Lock-stitch seams | Seams using two threads, an upper and a lower, which lock together in the hole in the workpiece they pass through |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Overedge seams | Seams that are typically used for sewing together and edge-finishing two fabric layers in one step |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Blind stitch seams | Seams that are typically used for attaching lining to a garment where the stitches should not show on either side. |
This place covers:
Apparatus or machines for making non-welded fluid tight seams by sewing.
This place does not cover:
Sewing machines for concurrently making thread and welded seams |
This place covers:
Sewing apparatus or machines with mechanism for lateral movement of the needle or the work or both, e.g. for bar-tacking, i.e. forming series of stitches used for reinforcing areas of stress on a garment, such as pocket openings.
This place does not cover:
Sewing machines characterised by the programme control for lateral movement of the needle or the work or both | |
Sewing machines characterised by devices for automatically controlling movement of work-carrier relative to stitch-forming mechanism in order to obtain particular configuration of seam |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Piped openings | are openings e.g. formed for making pockets in a garment. The machines for making piped openings may have two needles |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Indexing Codes related to applied objects or articles |
This place covers:
Sewing machines for temporarily connecting articles, e.g. for joining knitted articles.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Pairing socks | |
Devices for keeping articles together during laundering, e.g. for keeping socks in pairs |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Overlocking machine | Type of machine often used for temporarily connecting articles |
This place covers:
linking machines, e.g. for joining knitted fabrics, e.g. overlocking machines.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Indexing Code related to operations on the work before or after sewing |
Machines provided with means for sewing and knitting to create a single article are classified in the field where the alleged invention lies. A combined knitting-sewing machine where the invention lies in the sewing is classified in sewing only.
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Linking | Coupling or connecting by or as if by a link |
This place covers:
Hem-stitch machines, i.e. machines having one or two needles, and a piercer.
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Hem | Border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down. |
In patent documents the expression "hem-stitch sewing machines" is often used as synonym for " hemming machine".
This place does not cover:
Control of workpiece-holding frames, or of sewing machines, in order to obtain particular seam configuration |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Spring mattresses | |
Stuffed mattresses | |
Worktables or workframes specially for upholstery | |
Worktables or workframes specially for upholstery |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Quilt | Coverlet of two or more layers of cloth filled with padding held in place by stitched designs |
Mattress | Fabric case filled with resilient material (as cotton, hair, feathers, foam rubber, or an arrangement of coiled springs), used either alone as a bed or on a bedstead |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Inflatable occupant restraints or confinements designed to inflate upon impact or impending impact, e.g. air bags |
This place does not cover:
Machines for sewing sacks combined with bag- or sack-filling apparatus | |
Machines for sewing sacks combined with bag- or sack-filling apparatus |
This place covers:
Machines specifically designed for sewing leather goods, i.e. suitcases, bags, and shoes.
This place does not cover:
Machines for making pseudo-lock-stitch seams | |
Seat coverings for vehicles by sewing, stitching or threading | |
Manufacturing methods specially adapted for seat coverings |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Seat coverings in general |
This place covers:
Machines for concurrently making thread and welded seams using i.e. heat, pressure, ultrasonic means, infrared means, laser or fusible materials.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Sewing machines for making non-welded fluid-tight seams |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Welding | Uniting by heating and allowing the products to flow together, i.e. by compressing |
This place covers:
Programme-controlled sewing machines, i.e. machines using computer means.
This place does not cover:
Programme-controlled sewing machines with devices for automatically controlling movement of work-carrier relative to stitch-forming mechanism in order to obtain particular configuration of seam | |
Programme-controlled devices for stopping drive when sewing tools have reached a predetermined position |
Group D05B 19/003 is no longer used for classification. Documents are in the process of being reorganised to groups D05B 19/02 - D05B 19/16.
This place covers:
Sewing machines with devices for automatically controlling movement of work-carrier relative to stitch-forming mechanism in order to obtain particular configuration of seam, e.g. programme-controlled for sewing collars, for attaching pockets, bar tacking.
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Bar tacking or bartacking | Specialized sewing stitch designed to provide tensile strength to the product it is used on, for reinforcing areas of stress on a garment, such as pocket openings. |
This place covers:
E.g. machines with accessory devices controlled by the presser foot, with fluted means having grooves to improve friction.
This place covers:
E.g. sewing machines for sewing straw hats, straw cases, wisps of straw, canvas shoes, for hemming hats, ribbing corsets, binding or uniting carpets, assembling parts of knitted panties or closing toe parts of stockings.
This place does not cover:
Sewing apparatus or machines for making zip closures |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Indexing Codes related to use of special elements | |
Indexing Codes related to use of special materials | |
Indexing Codes related to use of special materials | |
Indexing Codes related to operations on the work before or after sewing |
This place covers:
Sewing units for assembling parts of knitted panties or closing the stocking toe part, after the knitting operation has been processed.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Hosiery, panti-hose | |
Indexing Codes related to use of special materials | |
Indexing Codes related to applied objects or articles | |
Indexing Code related to hosiery, panti-hose |
Machines for assembling knitted panties or stockings provided with means for sewing and other operations (e.g. turning the material inside-out, trimming the seam edges) are classified in the field where the alleged invention lies. A combined sewing machine with a turning inside-out mechanism where the invention lies in the turning inside-out of the material is classified in D06G 3/00 only. A combined sewing machine with trimming of the hosiery or seamed edges where the invention lies in the trimming is classified in D06C 13/12 only.
This place covers:
Sewing units consisting of combinations of several sewing machines which can be mounted in series or in parallel, incorporating e.g. conveying devices and devices not incorporated in the sewing machines for supplying and removing the work.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Indexing Codes related to use of special materials | |
Indexing Codes related to applied objects or articles | |
Indexing Codes related to operations on the work before or after sewing | |
Indexing Codes related to textile applications |
Machines provided with means for sewing and other operations (e.g. turning the material inside-out) are classified in the field where the alleged invention lies. A combined sewing machine with a turning inside-out mechanism where the invention lies in the turning inside-out of the material is classified in D06G 3/00 only.
This place covers:
Work-feeding means forming part of the sewing machine, e.g. feed dogs, rotary circular feed members, sewing needles, used in order to move the work through the sewing machine.
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Feed dogs | A part of a sewing machine that feeds the work under the needle. |
This place covers:
pressers and presser feet resting on the work and pressing it down upon the table of the sewing machine.
This place does not cover:
Presser feet for feeding the work |
This place covers:
Workpiece holders or hold-downs in machines for sewing leather, e.g. balls, shoes.
This place covers:
Devices incorporated in sewing machines for supplying or removing the work, e.g. conveying devices, feeding workpieces separated from piles.
This place does not cover:
Work-feeding means, e.g. feed dogs, rotary circular feed members |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Indexing Codes related to operations on the work before or after sewing | |
Indexing Codes related to textile applications |
This place covers:
Work-feeding or work-handling elements for specific applications, e.g. for facilitating seaming, hem-turning elements, for attaching bands, ribbons, strips, for binding, ruching, gathering, casing, filling lace, pleating devices, cuttlers, curlers, edge guides, indicators for positioning work.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Indexing Codes related to applied objects or articles | |
Indexing Codes related to operations on the work before or after sewing |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Hem | Border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down. |
This place does not cover:
Connection of separate, or one piece, interlocking members to stringer tapes and reinforcing such connections, e.g. by stitching |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Sewing hooks, e.g. to a tape |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Indexing Codes related to operations on the work before or after sewing | |
Pleating, kilting, or goffering fabrics or wearing apparel by heat and/or steam |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Ruching lace | Forming a pleat of lace for trimming a work |
Ruffler | Attachment on a sewing machine used for making frills |
Crimper | A mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the work is wound to curl it |
This place covers:
Machines for making folds transversely to the sewing direction, e.g. rufflers.
This place does not cover:
Sewing machines with devices for automatically controlling movement of work-carrier relative to stitch-forming mechanism in order to obtain spiral seams |
This place covers:
Devices incorporated in sewing machines for slitting, grooving or cutting the work.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Devices incorporated in sewing machines for severing sewing-threads |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Slitting | Forming a long and narrow cut |
Grooving | Forming a long narrow channel |
This place covers:
Cutting devices with oscillating tools, i.e. tools swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm, not just moving up and down.
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Pinking | is forming a perforated pattern. |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Pinking | is forming a perforated pattern. |
This place covers:
Workpiece carriers, e.g. for cap, support structures, sewing frames.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Devices for automatically controlling movement of work-carrier relative to stitch forming mechanism in order to obtain particular configuration of seam | |
Cloth-holders | |
Indexing Code related to selection of machines, accessories or parts of the same kind | |
Indexing Codes related to use of special elements | |
Indexing Codes related to use of special materials | |
Indexing Codes related to applied objects or articles | |
Indexing Codes related to operations on the work before or after sewing |
This place covers:
Quilting frames in sewing machines.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Machines for sewing quilts or mattresses | |
Appliances for holding or feeding the base fabric in embroidering machines |
This place covers:
Work-collecting devices, e.g. worktables, stack support assemblies.
This place covers:
Spool-pin assemblies incorporated in sewing machines for holding spools.
This place does not cover:
Applications of bobbin-winding or -changing devices |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Spool pin | is a pin on which the spool of thread is seated. |
This place covers:
Applications of measuring devices for determining the length of threads used in sewing machines, e.g. in order to cut the thread after performing sewing, to control the speed, to determine the thread reserve.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Applications of devices for metering predetermined lengths of running material | |
Measuring devices for use with embroidery machines | |
Measuring length in general |
This place covers:
Needle thread tensioning devices and applications of tensometers, i.e. devices controlling the needle thread in order to avoid a defective stitching or a broken thread.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
thread tensioning arrangements in embroidery machines | |
Indexing Codes related to use of special elements |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Applications of tension indicators in handling thin and filamentary material | |
Thread-tensioning arrangements in embroidering machines | |
Tensometers in general |
This place covers:
Take-up devices, e.g. levers, for the needle thread, in order to provide enough thread for the loop and preventing knotted wads of thread.
This place covers:
Applications of needle-thread guards and thread-break detectors, i.e. devices for guiding the needle thread and for detecting the absence of the thread, respectively.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Applications of needle-thread guards and thread-break detectors for embroidery machines |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Needle-thread guard | Mechanical element preventing skipping stitches |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Thread laying mechanism | A device used to guide the thread in order to manage the stitches when a smooth and flat finish is desired. |
This place covers:
Needle holders and needle bars, e.g. devices for fastening needles to needle bars, needle guides, needle-bar drives.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Needles |
This place covers:
Devices for fastening needles to needle bars for all kinds of needles.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Arrangements for fastening or inserting needles in bars or carriers in embroidery machines | |
Indexing Code related to selection of machines, accessories or parts of the same kind |
This place covers:
Needle guides and needle protectors, exclusively designed to guide and protect the needle, not to guide with regard to the needle or protect from the needle.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Finger protecting devices |
This place covers:
Loop takers and loopers, i.e. mechanisms placed underneath the workpiece for grabbing the loop of thread before the needle pulls up, and wrapping it around either another piece of thread or another loop in the same piece of thread.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Bobbin holders or casings, case guards, bobbin discharge devices | |
Application of bobbins for storing the lower thread |
This place covers:
Loop holders, loop spreaders and stitch-forming fingers, i.e. devices retaining the loop of the needle thread underneath the workpiece until the following operation.
This place covers:
Devices associated with the loop-taker thread, e.g. for tensioning, monitoring.
This place covers:
Devices for severing the needle or lower thread, e.g. knife, heated tool, and for disposing of the severed thread end. Cutting devices inside or associated with the thread disposal device are covered by D05B 65/06.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Arrangements for cutting the needle or lower thread in embroidery machines | |
Indexing Codes related to applied objects or articles | |
Indexing Codes related to operations on the work before or after sewing |
This place covers:
Devices for severing the needle or lower thread and for disposing of the severed end, only if the cutting device is inside or associated with the thread disposal device, e.g. catching or wiping devices for the severed thread.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Moistening, sizing, oiling, waxing, colouring or drying filamentary material as additional measures during package formation | |
Devices for dyeing or impregnating the threads in embroidery machines | |
Treatment of fibres, threads and yarns not provided for elsewhere |
This place covers:
Driving gear and control devices defined by the structure, e.g. mechanical, fluid, electrical, or by the application, e.g. changing speed, stopping drive, or by details.
This place covers:
Lbricating or cooling devices, e.g. for loop-taker, needle, taking the workpiece into consideration.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Lubricating devices in embroidery machines |
This place covers:
Fee-arm sewing machines, i.e. machines having an arm holding bobbin, shuttle and feed dogs.
This place does not cover:
Devices for converting free-arm sewing machines into flat-bed machines |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
A free-arm sewing machine | has a shape allowing the fabric to slip around the arm. |
This place covers:
frames, stands, tables, or the like adapted to carry sewing machines, e.g. for drop-head sewing machines, with noise-suppressing devices, and arrangements for mounting sewing-machine casings to frames, stands or tables.
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
A drop-head sewing machine | machine e.g. foldable, with multi-position adjustment. |
This place covers:
Covers, or portable enclosures, for sewing machines, e.g. case cover, bed extension table, shield assembly.
This place covers:
Incorporations or adaptations of lighting equipment in sewing machines, e.g. lights, magnifying glasses.
This place covers:
sewing machines incorporating devices serving purposes other than sewing, e.g. for blowing air, for grinding, for discharging material, vacuum boxes, brushes.
This place covers:
Guards or like devices for preventing injury to operator, e.g. preventing fingers to be pierced by the needle.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Safety devices in general |
This place covers:
Needles, e.g. hooked needles, curved needles, flexible needles, hollow needles.
This place does not cover:
Surgical needles, e.g. for sewing body parts |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Making needles used for performing operations (i.e. manufacture of needles) | |
Quilting needles for making upholstery | |
Machine needles in embroidery machines |
This place covers:
Needle- or looper-threading devices, i.e. devices for positioning the thread in the needle eye or in the looper, e.g. with mechanical means.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Apparatus for filling or threading shuttles | |
Indexing Codes related to use of special elements |
This place covers:
Seam ripping devices, e.g. for ripping out or opening the seam.
This place does not cover:
Needles | |
Needle threading devices | |
Appliances or methods for making clothes, e.g. for dress making, for tailoring (e.g. boxes for needles) |
This place covers:
Bodkins, i.e. small pointed instrument used for piercing holes in cloth or instrument with a knobbed point and a large eye for drawing tape or cord through a hem.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Needles for hand knitting | |
Crocheting tools | |
Tools for hand knotting carpets or tapestries | |
Hand tufting needles |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Finger protectors for knitting |
This place does not cover:
Boxes for needles or pins |
This place does not cover:
Tool receptacles for hand sewing |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Holders for embroidering needles or threads |
This place covers:
Stitches and stitch seams, e.g. combined with machine sewing, knitting, strengthened by auxiliary elements.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Applied objects or articles | |
Operations on the work before or after sewing |
This place covers:
Preparatory or finishing operations in connection with hand sewing, e.g. softening material prior to sewing, flattening, pounding, or pressing stitched seams.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Indexing Codes related to operations on the work before or after sewing |
This place does not cover:
Creasing presses in shoemaking |
This place covers:
Hand sewing processes or apparatus for special work or not otherwise provided for, e.g. hand-guided apparatus, for darning, using special threads, for attaching buttons or fasteners, for attaching patches.