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Class Number: 26
Class Title: TEXTILES: CLOTH FINISHING
Subclass Subclass
Number Title
1 MISCELLANEOUS
2 R PILE FABRICS
2 E .Electrifiers
3 SINGEING
4 .Articles
5 ..On attached form
6 .Heated contact element
7 CUTTING
8 R .Pile loops
9 ..With simultaneous feeding
10 R ...With stopping
10 C ....Rotary cutters
8 C ..Rotary cutters
10.4 .Weft end or selvage float loop removal
11 .Float threads
11.4 ..Venetian blind tapes
12 ..With feeding
13 .Double pile fabric
14 ..Loom type
15 R .Shearing
16 ..Ornamental
17 ..With seam detector
18 ..Automatic extension rests
15 L ..With lubrication
15 FB ..With flexible bed
18.5 SHRINKING
18.6 .Thread compacting
19 .Fulling
20 ..Continuous web machines
21 ...Pleating type
22 ..Beater type
23 ...Gravity stroke
24 ..Stopping
25 BEATING
26 .Beetling
27 RUBBING
28 .Abrasive
29 R NAPPING
30 .Ornamental
31 .Napping surface feature
32 ..Machines
33 .Planetary
34 ..Including drive feature
35 ...Drives
36 .Reciprocating napping element
37 .Single fixed-position napping roll
29 P .With pneumatic lint removal
51 STRETCHING OR SPREADING AND WORKING
51.3 .Weft angle adjusting
51.4 ..Automatically controlled
51.5 ...With photoelectric scanning or detecting means
52 .Traveling clamp or hook typee
53 ..Reciprocating frames
71 EXPANDING DEVICE FOR TEXTILE WEBS
72 .Biaxial expansion
73 ..By successively accelerating spreader members of traveling
set
74 .Web-condition-responsive operation control
75 ..Responsive to edge location to control spreader
76 ...To adjust tenter frame
77 ...To adjust angle of selvage-engaging roller spreader
78 ...Roller spreader pair nip control
79 ...To activate traveling spreader member responsive to removal
from feeler
80 .Tubular-fabric-enclosed spreader
81 ..Including heater or dryer
82 ..With slitter, for opening up
83 ..With rotary feeder or bearing at spreader ends
84 ...Driven
85 ....Multi-dimensional spreader (e.g., tube or spider)
86 .Overfeed arrangement; or rotary pinner for traveling pin
spreader set
87 .Spreader
88 ..Acting on fabric edge only
89 ...Edge-retaining traveler set (i.e., tenter)
90 ....Edge-entraining wheel
91 ....Laterally adjustable tenter frame
92 ....With heater or dryer
93 ....Set is series of traveling clamps
94 .....Including clamp manipulator
95 .....And mating pin series set
96 ....Set is traveling pin series
97 ...Roller spreader
98 ...Edge straightener; e.g., uncurler
99 ..Roller spreader
100 ...Axially slidable sections
101 ...Bowed
102 ....Plural member roller
103 .....Multi-spindle
104 ......Covered
105 ...Bi-helical
106 .Including heater or dryer
69 R ORNAMENTAL
69 A .By shrinking
69 B .By fiber removal
69 C .By scraping
70 INSPECTING
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* DIGEST
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DIG 1 Edge and/or uncurling; stiffening