(under subclass 211) Apparatus in which material is
compressed within a bendable filament, strand or band by contracting it around the material by endwise pulling.
(1) Note. This subclass includes binder chain wires and cords equipped with means to support them from the ground or support them from an element penetrating the material whether or not the binder chain wire or cord is equipped with means to tighten the binder chain or cord around the material.
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1+, for devices for disposing a flexible binder tightly and circumferentially closed around the material.
278, for reciprocating platen presses having a flexible element actuator for the platen.
