US PATENT CLASS 147
Class Notes
Current as of: June, 1999
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DEFINITION
Classification: 147/
Includes machines which are used exclusively in the manufacture of wooden barrels, fruit-boxes, baskets, or crates. Coopering does not include machines for sawing, bending, or planing staves or machines for sawing, splitting, cutting, or coiling hoops, except such as separate the hoops from a scored rod by racking or abruptly bending the rod or which combine two or more operations in the production of hoops, as planing and bending or planing and lapping or pointing.
REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES
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29, Metal Working,
592+, for a method of, and subclasses 700+ for a machine for, assembling articles, as those indicated in the note to Class
227 below, not elsewhere classified.
83, Cutting, appropriate subclasses for stave-cutting devices.
144, Woodworking,
114.1+, for a machine for planing staves, subclasses 182+ for a machine for skiving or splitting hoops, and subclasses 254+ for a machines for bending staves. 227, Elongated-Member-Driving Apparatus, appropriate subclasses for apparatus for assembling a basket or barrel combined with means to apply a member, e.g., nail, thereto.