US PATENT CLASS 132
Class Notes
Current as of: June, 1999
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DEFINITION
Classification: 132/
This is a residual class for devices and methods used by
persons in making their toilet (i.e., for personal grooming and hygiene). It also includes closely related professional devices and methods for treating or grooming hair. It includes but is not limited to: devices for holding the mustache out of the way during eating; combs, curlers, barbers' hair cutting guides; switch, puff and wig making machines and processes, hat fasteners; manicuring devices and toothpicks (including dental floss). This class also includes toilet kits such as shaving kits and powder compacts.
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2, Apparel, appropriate subclasses for shields attached to the person to protect the person or clothing during toilet making operations, particularly
50, for barbering aprons and subclass 174 for head coverings for shielding the eyes and face during hair cutting, shampooing or the like.
4, Baths, Closets, Sinks, and Spittoons, appropriate subclasses for the devices named in the class title.
15, Brushing, Scrubbing, and General Cleaning, appropriate subclasses, for hair, tooth, shaving, blacking, and clothes brushes, per se, and shoe-blacking stands.
30, Cutlery, appropriate subclasses, for pocket-knives, razors, and hairclippers. 206, Special Receptacle or Package,
77.1, for a soap container provided with means to facilitate the lifting or removal of a piece of soap from the container.
220, Receptacles, appropriate subclasses for shaving cups.
223, Apparel Apparatus,
111, 119 for bootjacks, shoehorns, and other dressing and undressing aids.
248, Supports,
200+, for a bracket type soap holder, subclasses 317+ for a suspended type soap holder and subclasses 683+ for a holder which supports the soap while in storage position and remains with the soap while in use.
312, Supports: Cabinet Structure,
351, for a soap dish provided with means to support the soap in spaced relation to the bottom wall of the structure.
362, Illumination,
136+, for illuminating devices combined with toilet cases. 401, Coating Implements With Material Supply,
49+, for a lipstick, or the like, cosmetic device; subclasses 88+ for a soap holder which holds the soap in such a manner that a portion of the soap may be directly rubbed on the body; subclasses 123+ for a cosmetic kit, including a supply of cosmetic material and an applicator supported out of communication with the supply; and subclasses 126+, for a compact, including an applicator overlying, or depending from a closure into, a supply material; particularly subclass 130, wherein the applicator is a pad (e.g., puff) overlying a supply of powder or paste.
424, Drug, Bio-Affecting and Body Treating Compositions,
70+, for a composition for treating hair on a living body.