CPC Definition - Subclass D06C
This place covers:
Apparatuses and methods for finishing, dressing, tentering or stretching of textile fabrics
This place does not cover:
Treating textile materials by liquids, gases or vapours | |
Chemical bleaching, dry-cleaning or washing fibres, threads, yarns, fabrics | |
Dyeing or printing textiles | |
Decorating textiles | |
Machines and apparatus for drying fabrics, fibres, yarns, or other materials in long lengths, with progressive movement |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Registering, tensioning, smoothing or guiding webs in general (e.g. paper or plastic webs) | |
Treatment, not provided for elsewhere in class D06, of fibres, threads, yarns, fabrics, feathers or fibrous goods made from such materials |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Textile fabrics | include yarns in warp or sheet form and nonwovens |
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Apparatuses and methods for stretching, tentering or spreading textile fabrics.
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Shaping or stretching tubular fabrics upon cores or internal frames |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Removing skew or disorientation of weft threads in woven fabrics |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Tentering | sets the warp and weft of woven fabrics at right angles to each other, and stretches and sets the fabric to its final dimensions. The fabric is stretched by the use of a tenter frame, consisting of chains fitted with pins or clips to hold the selvedges of the fabric, and travelling on tracks. As the fabric passes through a heated chamber, creases and wrinkles are removed, the weave is straightened, and the fabric is dried to its final size. |
In patent documents, the following words/expressions are often used as synonyms:
- "tentering", "crabbing" (i.e. tentering wool) or "heat-setting" (i.e. tentering synthetic materials)
- "spreading", "stretching", "expanding", "widening" or "enlarging"
This place covers:
E.g. spreading rollers with spiral patterns to spread the fabric or stretching rollers with reliefs on the roller surface to obtain fabric stretching.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Mechanical treatment, e.g. notching, twisting, compressing, shaping, of absorbent pads | |
Registering, tensioning, smoothing or guiding webs (e.g. paper or plastic webs) transversely by rollers | |
Rollers specially adapted for treatment of textile materials by liquids, gases or vapours | |
Rollers in general |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Bowed or curved rolls in general |
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The shaping or stretching of tubular fabrics upon cores or internal frames.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Supports simply for drying |
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Apparatuses and methods for the shaping or stretching of tubular fabrics in article form, e.g. apparatuses for loading stockings, pantihose (panty hoses) or socks on boards of fixing/hot-setting machines.
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Method and apparatuses for heating or cooling textile fabrics.
This place does not cover:
Heating or cooling stockings (e.g. hosiery boarding) | |
Heating during singeing | |
Shaping by thermoforming textile or other fibrous material made from plastics fibres | |
Machines and apparatuses for drying fabrics, fibres, yarns or other materials in long lengths, with progressive movement |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Heating or cooling of yarn, thread, cord, rope or the like |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Storing of textile materials (e.g. yarns) in helical form in association with the treatment by liquids, gases or vapours (e.g. setting of yarns) |
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Methods and apparatuses for singeing textile fabrics.
This place does not cover:
For making patterns or designs |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Singeing | Is a process of burning off protruding fibres from fabrics to give the fabrics a smooth surface |
In patent documents, the following words/expressions are often used as synonyms:
- "singeing" and "gassing"
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Methods and apparatuses for teasing, napping or otherwise roughening or raising pile of textile fabrics.
This place does not cover:
For making patterns or designs |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Modifying the surface of filaments, yarns or threads by abrading, scraping, scuffing, cutting or nicking |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Napping | is a finishing process that raises the surface fibres of a fabric by means of passage over rapidly revolving cylinders covered with metal points or teasel burrs. Outing, flannel and wool broadcloth derive their downy appearance from this finishing process. Napping is also used for certain knit goods, blankets and other fabrics with raised surface. |
Teasing | is a similar treatment which raises the nap of fabric |
This place covers:
Methods and apparatuses for shearing, clipping or cropping surfaces of textile fabrics, pile cutting or trimming edges.
This place does not cover:
Making patterns or designs on fabrics |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Cropping | is the process of cutting pile on a fabric to uniform height or cutting loose fibres from the surface of a cloth after weaving. |
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Shearing lace or embroidery, i.e. removing threads protruding from the surface.
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Apparatuses and methods specially adapted for cutting lace or embroidery |
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Methods and apparatuses for calendering, pressing, ironing , glossing or glazing textile fabrics.
This place does not cover:
Making patterns or designs by pressing (e.g. by embossing) |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Shrinking by compressing | |
Domestic, laundry, or like ironing or pressing | |
Ironing machines as domestic or laundry appliances |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Rollers specially adapted for treating textile materials by liquids, gases or vapours | |
Rolls in calenders | |
Rollers in general |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Beetling | Is a process in which round-thread linen or cotton fabric is pounded to give a flat effect. Beetled linen damask has an increased lustre and a leather-like texture. Beetling is also used to give a thready or linen-like appearance to cotton. |
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Methods and apparatuses for fulling.
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
fulling | is a finishing process used usually in the manufacture of woolen and worsted fabrics. The cloth is subjected to moisture, heat friction, chemicals, and pressure which cause it to mat and shrink appreciably in both the warp and filling directions, resulting in a denser, more compact fabric. |
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Apparatuses and methods for breaking or softening of fabrics.
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Compressive devices and corresponding methods carrying out the shrinking action by transporting the fabric between a moving elastic belt and a rotating heated drum, whereby the elastic belt is partially wrapped around the heated drum (called also " sanforizing")
Devices for microcreping. Microcreping, sometimes called "dry microcreping", refers to longitudinal treatment of travelling fabric under substantially dry conditions in which a drive force is produced by pressing the fabric against a drive roll. This positively propels the material through a confined retarding passage, with microcreping action on the material occurring in the transition between driving and retarding regions. Because such microcreping does not depend upon adhesion of the material to the drive surface or a wet condition of the material, a particularly wide range of properties is obtainable. Note that the dry microcreping here must not be confused with wet creping or creping based on adhesion, performed for instance on a Yankee dryer.
Wet creping or creping based on adhesion performed for instance on a Yankee dryer.
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Decorating fabrics by mechanical means.
This place does not cover:
Printing textiles | |
Decorating by partial dyeing | |
Reserving parts of the material before dyeing or printing | |
Decorating textiles by chemical means |
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Making of patterns, designs or motifs obtained by shrinking, embossing, moiréing or crêping a fabric. In particular making of patterns obtained by shrinking include tie-dyed and shrunk garments or fabrics.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Shaping textile or other fibrous material made from plastics fibres by thermoforming |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Moiré | is a wavy or watered effect on a textile fabric, especially a corded fabric of silk, rayon or a manufactured fibre. Moiré is produced by passing the fabric between engraved cylinders which press the design into the material, causing the crushed and uncrushed parts the reflect light differently |
Crêping | is a treatment imparted by wrinkling or embossing a fabric to give crimped surface and greater fabric bulk |
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Treatment for consolidating the edges of a fabric by several means, e.g. with a resin coating, a bonded tape etc.
Examples of places where the subject matter of this place is covered when specially adapted, used for a particular purpose, or incorporated in a larger system:
Forming selvedges (on the loom) by adhesive |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Trimming hosiery or seamed edges of fabrics | |
Seaming textile materials | |
Chemical treatment of borders of fabrics or knittings, thermal or chemical fixation of cuttings |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Selvedge | or selvage is the narrow edge of woven fabric that runs parallel to the warp. It is made with stronger yarns in a tighter construction than the body of the fabric to prevent ravelling. A fast selvage encloses all or part of the picks, and a selvage is not fast when the filling threads are cut at the fabric edge after every pick. |
This place covers:
Compound processes or apparatuses, i.e. involving two or more treatments in succession, for finishing or dressing textile fabrics, not otherwise provided for.
The group covers compound processes with detailed or non-detailed single treatments. Details of single treatments are additionally classified in the relevant groups.
This place covers:
Finishing or dressing of textile fabrics, not provided for in the preceding groups.