CPC Definition - Subclass D06J
This place covers:
Methods for pleating, kilting or goffering textile fabrics or wearing apparel including of mechanical or physical processing with or without using heat, steam or treatment composition and also the combination thereof.
Apparatus for pleating, kilting or goffering textile fabrics or wearing apparel such as cloth folding mechanisms, pleat forming devices, pleating machines, including kilting machines, goffers, pressing patterns and fabric creasing machines.
Forms of pleats, e.g. accordion pleats, kilt pleats and box pleats.
This place does not cover:
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Processes or apparatuses for shaping plastics by folding | |
Mechanical working or deformation of paper or cardboard | |
Folding thin materials |
Classification in the subclass D06J can be complemented with classification in other subclasses of class D06 such as D06B, D06C and D06M.
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Goffer also gauffer | (n) special iron used for goffering or (v) to make wavy, flute, crimp with heated special iron |
Kilt pleat | a perpendicular arrangement of flat, single plaits, each plait being folded so as to cover half the breadth of the preceding one |
Kilt | a garment with pleats |
Kilting | providing a garment with kilt pleats |
Pleat | a fold formed by doubling the fabric upon itself and securing it in place. Pleats can be pressed (i.e. ironed), non-pressed for round folds or heat-set for sharp creases |
Textile fabrics | woven, knitted and non-woven textile fabrics |
In this subclass, or in the patent documents classified in this subclass, the following terms are often used as synonyms "pleat", "crease", "crimp", "fold and flute".
In addition, the expression "dart" (i.e. a tapered tuck stitched in a garment in order to shape it) may occasionally be used.
Further, the expression "corrugating" is often used instead of "goffering".